And you can tell that Texas is worried about it, huh? The Texas legislature even got pissed because they cannot execute the mentally retarded any more.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: Re: PREA - PRison Rape Elimination Act | Amnesty International (not sure about American Amnesty) has a standing | argument with Texas (along with other states and the federal government) | for its use of the death penalty. | | - Jim | | Angel Stewart wrote: | | >They hang people in Trinidad. | > | >But we have come under continuous attack by Amnesty International And | >American Amnesty I believe, that tis become nearly impossible to carry | >out our own laws :( | > | >We hung 6 people all at once in one year for a heinous drug related | >crime, one of them was a multimillionairre drug baron that had ordered | >the executions of about 4 people or something like that. Evisceration in | >a cane field I think. (Course the sub-story was that the drug baron was | >prepared to tell all he knew and implicate a lot of other people, so | >they HAD to get rid of him). | > | >And Man...that went all the way to the UN!!! | > | >We tried again to hang a guy that had 'sex' with a baby and then killed | >the child and its mother ...and after that it was one set of bacchanal | >too. | > | >Since then we've not hung anyone. | >It's become too politically dangerous because these large countries put | >pressure on us. | > | >Ironic that American Amnesty doesn't take it to the UN when Texas | >executes someone, but perhaps that is because Hanging is seen as being | >grossly 'inhumane'. | > | >-Gel | >-----Original Message----- | >From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | >You want fewer prisons and criminals. | > | >1. Make drugs legal. This would deal with the vast majority of the | >"non-violent" offenders we have in prisons, it would also lessen the | >violence associated with the drug trade. It's time to end this | >ridiculous prohibition like we did the one in the 20s. | > | >2. Instead of using millions of appeals, and some feel good execution. | >Make it so that criminals convicted of a crime, and sentenced to die are | >hung. Within lets say 1 year. Use a rope. Reuse the rope until it | >breaks. Either that or the firing squad with blanks and 2 live rounds. | >Reload the ammo :) | > | >Tim | > | > | > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
