What do people think of the death penalty for Aimal Kasi?

Lost User

Somewhat off topic: I was talking to an old highschool classmate recently who claimed 2 other classmates were currently incarcerated after being convicted of murder over the years (I graduated HS in 1981). I went to the Illinois Department of Corrections website and found they have an "Inmate Search". A couple minutes later... I find out it's true! :omg: One is in for 60 years for murder and the other is in for 40 years for one murder and one attempted murder. :wtf: Neither one of these individuals were class bullies or anything. Hell, one of them was very mild mannered as I recall. Mike Mullikin :beer:

Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation. - David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap

dorkshoe

Christian Graus wrote: IMO a civilised society sends such people to jail, where it's possible to reverse the decision if new evidence comes to light The average time a US death row prisoner has to spend in jail until the death sentence is carried out is about nine and a half years. Thats a lot of time to reverse a decision..and there have been many cases where it has been reversed. Its not like you sentence someone to death and then take them outside and shoot em. The prisoner still has the right to appeals and such.. Also, there are like 15 states that abolished the death penalty and a few others that havent used it...The death penalty is a major issue here. One that gets debated all of the time. Anyway! -dork

Christian Graus

Mike Mullikin wrote: Hell, one of them was very mild mannered as I recall. I guess he finally snapped. I used to love going to meet-an-inmate.com and seeing the personals girls in jail used to put up. Cruel, but funny. Have you seen 'Minority Report' ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

ColinDavies

WOW, that would freak me out as well. two from one class seems like a lot, to put it real mildly. Regardz Colin J Davies

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Christian Graus

dorkshoe wrote: The average time a US death row prisoner has to spend in jail until the death sentence is carried out is about nine and a half years. Which is in itself a cruel and unusual punishment. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

Mike Gaskey

Personally I believe that some crimes are so terrible that the individual.s or individuals who commit those crimes must be excised from society. With all due respect to the enlightened who have opined regarding the barbarism of the death penalty, I don't see how being provided a life time of room and board is a just punishment for the perpetrators of certain crimes. It is also unfair to the victims of those crimes. In the case that raised the question, my belief is that the USA certainly should not spare this guys life for any political reason. But there is an even worse situation on the horizon. That is the case of the two snipers recently caught here in the USA. Here are two individuals who traveled the country, simply to take lives of innocents. One of these two is purported to be 17 years of age and has admitted, if news leaks are true, to pulling the trigger on several of the murdered innocents. These murders were done either for sport or eventual gain. Should both men, if found guilty, be put to death. Absolutely. The only question is how. Painless injection or ? To call the death penalty barbaric is fine, intellectually, but what is the alternative? Life in prison with no parole? So then family member of the slain contribute the care and feeding of two who took the lives of their family members? One of the victims that comes to mind was the father of six, their only means of support. Now there is a mother without a husband, six children without a father and a family without a provider. There is little question regarding guilt. It is difficult to understand a point of view that would do anything other than deliver and execute a death sentence should they be found guilty at the end of a fair trial. Mike

Lost User

Christian Graus wrote: Have you seen 'Minority Report' ? Not yet, but it's on my list once it's on DVD. Mike Mullikin :beer:

Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation. - David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap

Lost User

Colin Davies wrote: WOW, that would freak me out as well. two from one class seems like a lot, to put it real mildly. ...and that's only the ones I know about. :~ I'm tempted to sit down with my HS yearbook and start searching for everyone. :suss: Mike Mullikin :beer:

Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation. - David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap

Christian Graus

I missed it in the cinema, but I downloaded it. I will certainly be buying it on DVD, it rocks. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

Paul Watson

Mike Mullikin wrote: The murder of two people or forfeiting the killer's life? Obviously both are barbaric.

Paul Watson
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jan larsen

error: Incompatible type comparison: secret service organization == religion. By the way, didn't the Bush-man reinstall the probability of using assasination earlier this year?. This makes the comparison of Al Qaeda and CIA a lot more appropriate. "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus