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Watched a doco on Youtube last night. Guy killed five people for no apparent reason
He was sentenced to death
Eighteen years of it with his mother devoting all of it (and the lives of her immediate and extended family) to getting the killer off. ' Don't kill my son. He was such a good little boy, such a loving little boy' etc
The killer was more philosophical when interviewed on the eve of his execution. His lawyers tried the 'insanity' plea right to the end. When asked by tv crew if he was guilty, the killer said 'yes'. When asked if he was insane, he said 'No'. At the last gasp, teams of psychiatrists again assessed him and unanimously reached the conclusion he was sane enough to be executed and had been basically sane when he killed five people
When there was a last-minute stay of execution, the killer was disappointed at the same time his mother was whooping it up joyously for the media
Finally they executed him. Eighteen years of argy bargy and dozens of lives close to ruined, not counting the five lives he ended
Sure, every now and then the law makes a mistake and an innocent is imprisoned for the term of natural life. Just as in the past, going right back through time, innocent people have been executed by the law. But these are the small minority. And using them as justification, Commonwealth countries abolished the death penalty without a referendum and despite that overwhelmingly, the majority want a return to the death penalty. In fact, in the UK right now, MPs are arguing for a return of the death penalty
Women are killed in so called 'honour killings' every day of the week. Still more are permanently disfigured by temper tantrum acid attacks. Motor vehicles kill thousands each year, worldwide as do drug overdoses, falling from balconies, phony wars for profit -- and let's not forget the tens of thousands in each nation on earth who're killed by doctors and Big Medicine
Yet people fuss around about a few executed, usually guilty, prisoners. Tens of millions of dollars are wasted via trials, appeals, etc.
We're all going to die. Some people seem to think it's a movie and unless something 'really awful' happens, everyone will live if not forever, then 'for a long, long time'
I've no problems with a return to the death penalty when there's a confession in black and white and video
I have a real problems with corrupt judges and legal beagles who put scum back on the streets. And a similar issue with conveniently anonymous parole board members who do the same thing
Anyway, Sharia rule will become fact for Commonwealth slaves soon, apparently -- and with it the death penalty
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