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

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Caro.

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Date Posted: 08:08:00 06/11/01 Mon
In reply to: Chuckie 's message, "Re: The Death Penalty � the most controversial of subjects" on 07:53:43 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 certainly didn't mean to suggest a direct criticsm of America or Americans. To me this is an interesting discussion about the rights and wrongs of the Death Penalty and the associated problems. Not its implementation in different countries - for what it's worth if it came to a straight referendum on bringing back the death penalty the British Public would certainly vote yes. So I'm certainly not claiming any great British moral superiority.

>
>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.

I quite agree - it is very easy to sling mud at other nations. There's plenty of mud about and not much understanding. But I repeat that was not my intention.

>
>>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?

Actually I meant cheap in terms of lives lost.

Caro.

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