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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Bastille mentality (and moriarty's ?
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 16:28:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 16:28:24 1984
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>                        ...Unless and until our society displays
>the discipline to make "life sentences" precisely that, until the
>convict dies, I will continue to support the death penalty (not
>capital punishment).

By the same token, what about a discipline to make the "death penalty"
precisely that, as it appears most of them are commuted to "life sentences".

>                                   ...However, it seems to me that our
>society prefers a death penalty,...

>                			Jeff Hull

It dosen't seem to me that at all.  If we REALLY preferred 
the "death penalty" I don't think we would be so squeamish and
wishy-washy about it. 

Keith Doyle
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