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Subject: Re: The Death Penalty � the most controversial of subjects

Author:
Chuckie

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Date Posted: 07:53:43 06/11/01 Mon
In reply to: Caro. 's message, "Re: The Death Penalty � the most controversial of subjects" on 06:28:05 06/11/01 Mon

Caro:
>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.

Another thing that strikes me quite often about people from other countries who tell us how to run ours, is how little they understand Americans and the American legal system.

I could go on about the oppression of the Irish people by the British, and their right to violently oppose that oppression - but I won't because I don't understand it well enough.

>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.

Cheap emotionally/ethically? Or cheap monetarily?

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Re: The Death Penalty � the most controversial of subjects	Caro.	08:08:00 06/11/01 Mon