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

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kat

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Date Posted: 09:57:37 06/12/01 Tue
In reply to: Wyldchilde 's message, "Re: The Death Penalty � the most controversial of subjects" on 08:52:00 06/12/01 Tue

>Fine, now put yourself on the other side of the glass.
>Imagine was your mother, brother, imagine it was your
>6 month old baby slaughtered by one mans hate. A man
>who called your lost love one collateral damage to his
>very last. How would you sleep with him there, still
>breathing, still sending letters to his fans?
>Remember, alive is alive, and that's not what your
>loved one is allowed to be.

This is exactly the reasoning which compelled Timothy McVeigh to plant the Oklahoma bomb, except he was thinking of the victims of Waco.

He was taught to view the deaths of women and children as 'collateral damage' by the US military in the Gulf War. Perhaps such inhuman, immoral conditioning took it's toll on his sanity.

Violence begets violence. Not all the relatives of the Oklahoma victims wanted McVeigh to die. A justice system based upon blood for blood will only prolong the culture of apalling dehumanized acts of violence. It is also highly questionable whether the death penalty brings real closure for the bereaved, especially as he showed no sign of remorse.

Imagine what could have been gained by Timothy McVeigh being forced to confront the apalling consequences of his actions through witnessing the distress of the relatives, through actually letting their pain touch him? Many of the relatives needed him to feel real remorse and say so. He held out and nothing has been achieved by his death except the triumph of hate and anger through judicial vengance.

kat

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Re: The Death Penalty � the most controversial of subjects	Wyldchilde	13:52:34 06/12/01 Tue