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| | | (...) First, a quote: "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." -Dick Nixon (to the press, after losing the governor's race in California, who, sure enough, didn't have the wisdom to stick with his promise and got the ultimate kicking (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Excellent news! —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) Thanks. Resume kicking position:-) (...) Well, humans only live so long. I see little difference in a sentence of 40 years and one of 3 consecutive life sentences. I love it when someone becomes eligible for parole after a couple of hundred (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | (...) If you can prove that all confessions are 100% truthful. What if he's lying to protect his sister? Sure he probably deserves a penalty for lying about it, but the needle? ROSCO (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | (...) That well may be, but my point was and is to try and address the moral issue of execution directly. Your post reminds me of that classic scene in "Mr. Mom" where Jack is using the "Rocky" analogy. "Which Rocky?" :-) JOHN (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hey, that's an important distinction to make, and I don't think that I was making it in our part of the thread. But let's make sure we're clear-- You're debating about the morality of execution itself (presumably in cases in which guilt is (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes. I was hoping to take one at a time. JOHN (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) Not sure where you are going with that since no one is going to live a couple of hundred years. (...) So we don't murder innocent people. (...) My point exactly. (...) How so? (...) No. There's lots of people who confess to crimes that they (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Well, that's my point. These types of absurd sentences are given out anyway. (...) We do that anyway with our system that releases criminals on technicalities and those criminals go on to kill again. (...) I was trying to focus specifically on (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) I believe the point of three consecutive life setences is so that if someone becomes eligible for parole, they would still have to serve the next consecutive sentence (used in states that do not have "Life without any possible parole" (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Well, (URL) this guy> wasn't executed, but the point is served. Dave! (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) And (URL) this guy> was executed, so the point is served again. Dave! (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) And so was (URL) this guy,> so the point is served once more. Dave! (19 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Dang, my name is still being dragged into this nine months later - I've heard of a pregnant pause..... -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —John Neal
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| | | | (...) So let me get this straight-- is it conditional for me to prove that everyone ever executed actually committed their crimes and then you’ll agree to the death penalty? What about the fate of a man who kills 5 women and children during a (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) Since I dragged Bruce back into this, I'll field the question for him (though he's welcome to refute or add to it, of course!) (...) Of course not! The execution of a person who has been rendered harmless is indistinguishable from coldblooded (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) I reject your equivocation. In one case, the victim is an innocent, and in the other the "victim" is a coldblooded murderer. Being rendered "harmless" does in no way make a person "blameless". (...) No system is perfect. To criticize otherwise (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | | --SNIP-- (...) Preserving the sanctity of life by State-sanctioned killing. Interesting argument there. Tim (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | (...) I see that you are rebutting my "equivocation" with a straw man. Nowhere do I claim that the murderer is blameless, but I don't equate his "blamefulness" (sorry about that malapropism) with some "right" to execute him. And the person (or (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) You've summed it up very nicely, except that you state it as an absolute rather than a condition for me to even consider the question. (...) Here's a sword - are you willing to personally execute him yourself? No, it's not a facetious (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Leonard Hoffman
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| | | | | (...) Do I have to kill him with a sword? Cuz I always wanted to try whipping a person to death with a wet noodle. Or or or, maybe forcing him to eat bananas until he croaks. Now that would be an execution!! -Lenny (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) Well, I always knew you could noodle a drawing to death, but death by potassium overdose? And here I just got back from the store with bananas... -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) That may present a problem, but not because of a lack of volunteers. Didn't several hundred members of our civilized and Christian nation sign up to help execute Gary Gilmore? Dave! (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Leonard Hoffman
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| | | | (...) I just envisioned a new cash source for the government! Selling a raffle to see who gets to execute someone! Or better yet, an auction! -Lenny (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellent news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Full lottery, none of this "scratcher" nonsense. Now that would be putting money where your mouth is! :-) -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Richard Parsons
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| | | | (...) I like this. Definite potential as a revenue raiser and a crowd pleaser. But I think you might be onto something much much bigger. Think of the money and time we'd all save if we skipped the admittedly only dubiously successful process of (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Do I sense some kind of deep-seated resentment here???? ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Less excellent news —Richard Parsons
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| | | | | | (...) Only my deep sense of loss in not being able to live a full and normal life. We all have our crosses to bear, no? ;-) Richard Still baldly going... (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) I have it! None of this outcasts, psychotics, and losers nonsense - who cares about them? How about this: Politicians who are no longer in office get thrown in the execution pool and the lottery winner gets his/her pick to off! God, what a (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Thomas Stangl
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| | | | Why would you *possibly* limit it to politicians not in office? (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) See L. Sprague de Camp's "The Goblin Tower" (and the entire Novarian series): the king rules for some set period. After that time period, good king or bad, his head is chopped off, which becomes a grisly prize when it is tossed to the waiting (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) I've been to weddings like that. Dave! (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Sounds to me like a praying mantis honeymoon. JOHN (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Wait, I don't remember you guys being at my wedding.... -->The Unbeheaded King<-- (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Excellenter news! —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Really? We were so famous, they did a (URL) about us (the handsome one is me) JOHN (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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