Re: Death penalty
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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I am actually thinking of a greater likelihood that families oppose the death penalty asking for leniency. IOW the sentence on the books is death but it can be commuted with support of the family. In that case the family wouldn't be voting for revenge but they also wouldn't have the death of the criminal to add to their suffering if they were opposed to the death penalty. Victims of crimes and their families are heard from at sentencing so to the extent they do want revenge they are allowed to express it and a judge can take that into account when imposing a legal sentence. Also, my question is assuming for the sake of argument that innocent people aren't being put to death. But in this case in Connecticut that isn't a concern. Those are the cases I'm referring to, and they do exist: where there is no question of guilt and the crime is particularly heinous. There are murders that we have all heard of that fit that scenario. In those cases death is the only just option. Mike F. ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 3:14:44 PM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Death penalty On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Mike Findlay wrote: > But I would support a system which gives the victim's family the ultimate say >of whether the death penalty should be applied. I wouldn't. I'm all in favour of self-defense. I am *not* in favour of revenge. And giving the victims a say means letting the victims choose revenge, which is to say it means letting them choose death. In a culture that already lets people choose death in cases of abortion, etc., I guess it isn't a big stretch to permit these other choices as well. But still. And this is *before* we get to the question of mistaken convictions etc. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot