This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

David Stockhoff · 12 Apr 2012, 16:35 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:35:35 -0400
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires
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OTOH, who could be in prison for life and NOT brutally murder (or want 
to) everyone he comes in contact with? Indeed, what more could you do to 
destroy his humanity?

On 4/12/2012 12:09 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> I've stayed mostly out of this because I'm actually conflicted about
> the death penalty.
>
> I'm against it at a gut level, but ...
>
> What do you do with someone who is in jail for life and commits a
> brutal murder there? You can't exactly give him another life sentence.
>
> 2012/4/12 Ant?nio Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>:
>> That's all very well, Marc, but except in a very limited number of cases
>> society can't be sure the person is really guilty, and laws aren't made for
>> a very limited number of cases. For some, the issue may be the ethics of
>> killing a murderer; for most, the issue is the ethics of killing a potential
>> innocent just for the kicks of avenging blood with blood.
>>
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