Demographics of cigarette smoking
19 hours ago
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...about that "sense" of "Justice and closure"...:
I think that statement is just a cover for the emotional satisfaction that is actually being sought... which is revenge. The "balancing the scales" of justice is nothing more than the primitive concept that 'you hurt me, now I hurt you.' Understandable, perhaps, but ultimately useless. This "need" is so great that proponents of revenge are sometime willing to overlook niceties such as whether you've 'got the right guy,' or even guys... after all, most of our nation supported Bush's lie-based invasion of Iraq because someone had to pay for Sept. 11, and apparently any swarthy furriners would do.
I am not 100% opposed to the death penalty, because I do think that there are a very few mad dogs whom it is simply too dangerous to keep alive, and if they ever got loose they would be a clear threat to society ( Lemuel Smith comes to mind). But for the most part that is not the case.
Troy Davis' execution stayed by the Supreme CT 2 hours before he was scheduled to die: http://daddybstrong.blogspot.com/2008/09/troy-davis-life-is-saved-by-supreme.html
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