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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 08:33 AM Original message |
If life imprisonment is truly a harsher punishment than the death penalty |
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LizMoonstar (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. the argument i would make, though not siding in the DP thing, |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. We simply can't afford to house criminals in prison, there isn't hardly |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. well, we kept him in jail for 26 years before executing him, so that |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. hehe, nm, misunderstood your post |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-14-05 08:18 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. No sweat. |
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CornField (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
3. Not going to grab the flame bait, but have one thing to add |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. That depends entirely... |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. HUH? |
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MadisonProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. Thou shall not kill |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. We don't live in a theocracy |
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MadisonProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I'm agnostic. I still think it's a phrase I want to live by. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:52 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. thank you MP- for having the maturity to |
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MadisonProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:56 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Thanks |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 03:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
23. But the next chapter of that text gives orders for executions |
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jmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
7. That logic only has a chance of holding true if |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
9. But, on the contrary, an innocent man can still be freed |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:37 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yet Williams' lawyers never sought his release |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:44 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Ok, fair enough. This is only my third or fourth post in a Williams thread |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. ill informed are you. nt. |
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jmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Not true. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. nice try |
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jbnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
12. Way too stupid |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
16. Because this isn't about the inmate, |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. justice is never served |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
24. What a conservative argument! |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-14-05 07:45 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Actually, support of the death penalty is a mainstream view |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-14-05 03:09 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I think the majority of this country is ignorant and conservative. |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 10:14 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Agreed, it is also a preposterous argument |
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