"Joan Moyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello Sody,
You make a valid point as to how merciful LWP really is. Also, a point
about the goal of rehab when the individual will not be released or will be
released many so very many years in the future. I don't have a hard and
fast position on the DP. I find myself able to agree with it in some
instances and not in others.
Joan
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> From: Richard Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: L&I Justice
> Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 4:22 PM
>
> Richard Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> Bill wrote
>
> Hi Sody,
>
> I take no pleasure in nor do I get any satisfaction when anyone dies.
> But I DO see the value and necessity in making sure that certain people
> are locked away and never allowed to walk free in our society. And I DO
> see the need to have strong laws that are enforced in a strong and
> expedient manner.
>
> But there is no way that I could ever think that executing a child was
> justified and could certainly derive no satisfaction nor pleasure from
> knowing that it was done, here or anywhere else.
>
> And whether we think precedent is indicative of justice, it is a strong
> and effective tool for advocates in the presentation of legal arguments.
>
> Bill
>
> Bill :
> How can you justify putting anyone in a cell for twenty five years?? I
> see no sense in our present system of criminal justice. Prisons if you
> must have them should be a sincere effort to reform the individual and
> getting him back as a productive member of society. If that is not
> possible than dispose of him so that he is no longer a burden on society.
> I can't imagine anything more horrible that sentencing a young person (
or
> an old person either) to Life Without Parole, really Life Without Hope..
On
> one hand we talk of assisted suicide and euthanasia as a relief for such
a
> life and on the other condemn people to that very thing in the justice
> system.
> Someone suggested twenty five years for a thirteen year old. In jail
until
> thirty eight?? What kind of a person will he be and what kind of life
will
> he be able to lead??
> I guess I am the Dr. Kevorkian of law and order.
>
> The dirty old Gandy Dancer
>
>
>
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