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Personally I don't agree with the death sentence, I don't think any man has the right to take the life of another man. Also I think in cases like you've mentioned above that death is too good for them........My method would be to put them in a mental hospital......sedate them so heavily that they become a dribbling, incontinent mess that cannot control their own limbs or communicate effectively but leave just enough coherence in the brain so they remember who they are and what they have done. But then I have a real cruel streak where things like that are concerned. Punish them humanely.......you'll find it's often more cruel than the barbaric way |
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Coney - see you have no say in our laws here. And yes - there are lot of blue laws. I personally don't care what Texas does or here. As I have explained to you REPEATEDLY - our laws are state laws. We have state rights - and the death penalty is left up to the states - this is protected by the Constitution. The Constitution protects from cruel and unusual punishment - the rest is left up to the states.
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Unfortunately, that can't be done here. As JD pointed out, the Constitution of the US prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. That is why the death penalty has been changed over the years. And that is why the preferred method of putting a heinous criminal to death is lethal injection. It is supposedly does not cause pain, whereas electrocution, hanging, firing squad, etc, does. |
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2) No, that's flame. 3) In your opinion. (sidenote trivia: If I remember correctly, there is no word in the Russian language for "opinion".) 4) You understand that it has been misused. As does pretty well everyone. 5) If you refer to the above, that is not an understanding of Christianity, but of what it has been used for. Please, do NOT equate the two. 6) Again, that is your belief. I don't think this comes off as rude, sorry if it does.
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Actually I missed a bit off the end.........after they had become a dribbling, paraplegic zombie........then I'd release them into the general prison population for the rest of their days. |
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05-25-2003, 08:03 PM | #1048 | |
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Maybe ya'll should revive the death penalty thread.
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2) hehehe... *tries to look innocent* 3) No... evolution is a fact. There is no proven existence of a deity that made the universe. There is however evidence of quarks, leptons, etc. Those are facts. 4) Yes, I do understand that absolute power corrupts absolutely. 5) I do not. He said I have no understanding of religion or christianity and I do. I have personally experienced it. 6) no.... fact... nothing proven. |
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Lets get something straight here JD.......it's true, I have no power to change or influence your laws..........I neither had any power to change or influence the law of South Africa while it practised a Apartheid.......nobody had except those who lived in South Africa......Now if the entire international community thought that they had no right to criticise the then South African government, where would SA be now? Should everyone keep their opinions of every other country to themselves? Maybe we should censor newspapers so they only carry stories of everyones respective national news......heaven forbid if anyone should have an opinion about a foreign country. Quote:
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2) Okaaaaay, that doesn't make sense to me....seems to be that "humane" is characterized by mercy, compassion, kindness, etc.
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05-25-2003, 08:25 PM | #1056 | |
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What I do have a problem with is killing someone in the name of the law.........I don't see how anyone has the right to take the life of another. |
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05-25-2003, 08:31 PM | #1057 | |
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EDIT: this thread has gone way off course ('tis the curse of Coney).......Admins yer can delete my post's if yer like. Last edited by Coney : 05-25-2003 at 08:33 PM. |
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2) It has been "proven" to you. Yet, there are creationists. But if it were possible to prove the existence of the Bible, then there would be no atheists. Why is this? Is it that people who refuse to believe in anything that they cannot see, touch, smell, hear, or taste (in some instances with greatly amplified sense) are very open-minded etc., whereas people who can accept the existence of something bigger than themselves, or which is not proven, are close-minded, primitive bigots? Oh yes: Quiet you! I wasn't talking to you. 3) That has nothing to do with the question: if it is not interesting to some, why does that make it uninteresting to any? 4) It seems to me that a good deal of what you post is "rude". 5) Yeah, you know, you REALLY should work on that innocent-looking thing. 6) Again: No proof which atheists accept. What a shock! Kinda like creationists don't accept the theory of evolution.... 7) Indeed, it often (though not always) does. There HAVE been good kings. Though absolute power is a poor description of the Church of this day and age, let alone other corrupt "Christianity". 8) I don't really know if that's true. Being raised in a Christian family, going to a Christian church, and calling yourself a Christian does NOT make it so. 9) Nothing proven? And, you Can NOT prove that something does not exist.
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