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Subject: Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects Author: Caro. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 06:28:05 06/11/01 Mon In reply to: Wyldchilde 's message, "Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects" on 04:34:24 06/11/01 Mon I don't pretend to know the ins and out of the Mcveigh case. But if he really is representative of a particular political grouping then there are practical disadvantages to his execution. The biggest, and again I speak from the British experience, is the creation of martyrs and an actual political movement. You may be executing one man for a particularly heinous and awful crime and simultaneously creating a new monster that will take more lives in the future. Keeping Mr McVeigh in prison for the rest of his life may be a very cheap alternative. Over the last century the British have created our own monster in Ireland and every time we chopped off a head, two more grew in its place. The current Northern Ireland peace agreement may have been impossible against a backdrop of judicial killing. And it should be said that the remaining active parts of the IRA are directly related to deaths of the hunger strikers twenty years ago. Just a thought Caro. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects Wyldchilde 06:59:00 06/11/01 Mon Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects -- Caro., 07:16:26 06/11/01 Mon Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects -- Wyldchilde, 09:26:12 06/11/01 Mon Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects -- Caro., 09:39:38 06/11/01 Mon Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects -- Wyldchilde, 09:44:14 06/11/01 Mon Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects Chuckie 07:53:43 06/11/01 Mon Re: The Death Penalty – the most controversial of subjects -- Caro., 08:08:00 06/11/01 Mon