Saturday, June 09, 2007

Anything to make a buck

It doesn't get much worse than this.
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10 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Hang him.

6/09/2007 5:55 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

agreed. by which extremity, though?

6/09/2007 8:45 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Everytime I think I could live without a death penalty something likes this happens to remind me why the death penalty is sometimes the only just option

6/09/2007 8:46 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Would it be endangering children if somehow we let the kids pull the level to this monster's gallows?

6/10/2007 10:25 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

something likes this happens to remind me why the death penalty is sometimes the only just option
well yeah but then you look at the doaen people who were on death row in Illinois a few years back and who were exonerated through the intervention of law students who looked at their cases. All these people looked really guilty at some point. So while it's easy to see why one would wish for capital punishment for this guy, there's a big practicality issue: the system isn't perfect.

6/10/2007 11:40 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Let's expand, Pepe: no human institution or system is perfect.

6/10/2007 3:15 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

right - that's the source of the main problem with capital punishment.

6/10/2007 4:38 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Pepe requires perfection before implementation only of that which seeks justice and the good. He is apparently quite comfortable with injustice and evil striking out freely without being hindered by the need to first attain perfection

6/10/2007 8:05 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

aa - i realize you find it challenging to make an argument without an ad hominem but this isn't about me.

6/10/2007 9:40 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

...the issue is whether or not the benefits, if any, of implementing the capital punishment outweigh the inconvenience resulting from the fact that innocent people will occasionally be executed.

6/10/2007 10:05 PM

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