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Originally posted by Melusine:
One last thing: I think you might be projecting this topic on the American situation solely. Maybe because you live there? But when I talk about innocent people being sentenced to death, I'm also talking about people like Amina Lawal, who was sentenced to be stoned to death in Nigeria. Amnesty came into action. She is free now. I'm glad people thought she was important enough to fight for. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Of course. And amen. But, she could have been abused by a bad legal system whether or not it had the D.P. Life imprisonment for having sex is also bad, I'm sure you'd agree. Thus, it is not the D.P. that is at fault in these instances, but rather the very notion of what constitutes a "crime." The DP issues occur further down the chain, in the penalty phase of things.