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Peterson "Death Penalty, OT. |
Alison Baker |
Dec 13 2004, 04:16 PM
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Scott Peterson sentenced to DEATH !
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larryp |
Dec 14 2004, 11:48 AM
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Gut feelings are nice, but the statistics do not bear it out. Even disregarding the studies, and there are many (and the fact that the overwhelming majority of capital crimes are committed in the heat of passion or in exigent circumstances, where cognitive thought is not exactly a prime factor), history alone tells us otherwise.
In Elizabethan England, when one was found guilty of treason against the Crown, you were hung for a while (but without sufficient fall to break your neck) and thereafter cut down while alive, then placed on a rack and broken (e.g., your joints were dislocated), then disembowled while alive, then quartered. Your limbs were sent to the corners of the empire and your head stuck on a spike, all to deter others from similarly plotting against the Crown. There was no appeal, it was agaonizing, and it was immediate. Worse than the pain was the belief that because of your act, and the manner of death, you would then spend eternity in hell. (I believe as well, but may be recalling incorrectly, that due to forfeit, your family would now be destitute.) If that did not deter treason, and history plainly tells us it did not, what makes you think it would today? |
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