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beklah324 · November 6th, 2005, 04:47 PM

I have to agree with Mr. Gere, to some degree.
I always found it to be an ironic situation, or maybe oxymoron..that you are convicted as a person guilty of killing and sentenced to death. So what happens, you are sentenced to death by either a jury or judge (human beings) and the state houses you till your death day (tons of goodies there in jail) and then some body, another human, either pushes the button to electrocute you or injects you with a lethal dose of whatever (My criminology professor would so hate that I'm use simple pathetic words and not the BIIIIG crim words :-P). I just don't get it. It's bad that they killed in malice but it's okay for another human being to execute them because it's serving as punishment??

But I'm just weird like that in my thinking. You may now discuss this as you like :-P ::insert canned laughter and several long pauses of "hmmmmm"s::

November 6th, 2005, 04:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
beklah324 Bronze Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 116	I have to agree with Mr. Gere, to some degree. I always found it to be an ironic situation, or maybe oxymoron..that you are convicted as a person guilty of killing and sentenced to death. So what happens, you are sentenced to death by either a jury or judge (human beings) and the state houses you till your death day (tons of goodies there in jail) and then some body, another human, either pushes the button to electrocute you or injects you with a lethal dose of whatever (My criminology professor would so hate that I'm use simple pathetic words and not the BIIIIG crim words :-P). I just don't get it. It's bad that they killed in malice but it's okay for another human being to execute them because it's serving as punishment?? But I'm just weird like that in my thinking. You may now discuss this as you like :-P ::insert canned laughter and several long pauses of "hmmmmm"s::