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Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:35:52 GMT
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Richard Dee wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 May 1999 23:40:30 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following
> profundities...
> > Better that
> > a hundred guilty walk free than that 1 innocent be unjustly punished.
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> Why the death penalty was abolished in the UK. Shall we go
> down that road? Would the incorrect execution of one
> individual sway the overwhelmingly favourable attitude towards
> capital punishment? I don't see that such an event would
> sway opinion, somehow.
In fact, I seem to remember that Michael Dukakis (former govener or
Massachussetts and one time presidential canditate for non-americans and
those with short memories) caught flak for being soft on crime for
finally officially recognizing that Sacco and Vanzetti were wrongly
executed (outside of Massachussetts schools, is this case studied?).
For those who don't know who Sacco and Vanzetti were, they were a pair
of imigrants who were fingered as being communists and involved in a
bank robery in the 20s. I don't recall all the details, but do know that
well after the fact, it is recognized that the trial was a whole sham
and the real evidence linking them to the crime non-existent.
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Frank Filz
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| On Mon, 17 May 1999 23:40:30 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) Why the death penalty was abolished in the UK. Shall we go down that road? Would the incorrect execution of one individual sway the overwhelmingly (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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