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Harry
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« on: August 01, 2004, 08:27:34 AM »

I support this bill entirely.  Let horrible criminals rot in jail for years.
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2004, 07:06:24 PM »

Whether or not the bible says it's ok is not the issue here--it's whether it's ok in Atlasia.  So let's get back to debating that.
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2004, 07:21:44 PM »

there's so much stuff in the bible, you could probably find a passage that supports or opposes just about anything
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2004, 01:36:55 PM »

And you've gone down in mine.

One major reason why the people don't want others to have life in prison is because, we, the public have to PAY for them when they're in there. We DON'T want them to drain our money so they can have a hotel style life.

If anything make the prisons more like Turkey and then I'd like the bill. Smiley
It actually costs more money to execute a person than to hold them in jail for 30 years (the average legnth on a life sentence), so your point is moot.
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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2004, 07:22:00 PM »

I support the abolition of the death penalty, under any and all circumstances.

It has been argued in this thread that we must pay for keeping prisoners alive.  The truth is that the appeals process for death row inmates is much costlier to society in dollar terms.

The death penalty has not proven to be an effective deterrent to crime.  Murder and other heinous crimes are not committed less frequently in states that have death penalty as in states that do not.

If it does not deter crime, its only purpose is punishment.  It fails in that end as well.  Criminal terrorists the likes of Tim McVeigh are only too happy to die for their crimes.  Life in prison is a terrible punishment, and many would prefer death.  Which punishment is worse is purely a matter of personal opinion.

But my primary reason for opposing the death penalty is that it has been and does get administered to innocent people on occasion, and there is no way to commute this sentence if DNA evidence clears a convict after he has been executed.

The death penalty is a barbaric practice which modern society should abolish.
The death penalty is also giving out in grossly disproportionate numbers to minorites btw
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« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2004, 04:20:07 PM »

Does anyone have a point to make on the issue that hasn't been said already?  If that were the case, I'd agree to extending also.
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« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2004, 01:56:31 PM »

I vote a loud yea
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« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2004, 09:30:43 PM »

...that's 4 yeas and 1 nay
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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2004, 12:52:47 PM »

John F? Tweed? Mike?
One more vote for the Forces of Good, please!



One more vote to get our taxes higher to pay for all the people that will be sentenced to life in prison? Bad idea, vote NAY Senators!
As I have already stated . . . the death penalty is more expensive than housing people for life!!!!!
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