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Old 06-11-2003, 12:47 PM   #10
Cerek the Barbaric
Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice
 

Join Date: October 29, 2001
Location: North Carolina
Age: 62
Posts: 3,257
GOOD NEWS: Theodore "Ted" Bundy (a suspect in several different murders ranging across 3 states) is finally put in jail on an unrelated offense.

BAD NEWS: After serving a two year sentence, Bundy is released from prison. Unable to control the homicidal tendencies that he has kept "bottled up" for two years, Bundy breaks into a sorority house in Florida and bludgeons 4 girls to death with a stick of firewood.

GOOD NEWS: Bundy is captured and receives the Death Penalty for his crimes. The sentence is finally carried out about 12 years later - preventing him from killing any more innocent girls.

BAD NEWS: According to Bundy himself, this sentence and punishment comes to late for as many as 100 other girls that died by his hand during the previous years. While it can be argued that his imprisonment would not have prevented the majority of these deaths....it is absolutely certain the girls in the sorority house would not have been killed if he had been kept in jail.


Volley to you, Donut. For every case of wrongful execution you produce, I can match it with another case where a convicted criminal killed again after being released from jail. I understand your viewpoint, but I feel there IS a time and place when the Death Penalty is the only acceptable and fitting punishment.

Also, our judicial system has improved dramatically since 1950. There are many more "checks and balances" in place now to prenent the execution of an innocent person. I realize the system still isn't perfect - not by any stretch of the imagination - but there are many legal obstacles that have to be overcome now before the Death Sentence can actually be carried out.
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