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Bradical79

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16. I don't feel sorry for him

Reply to unreadierLizard (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 10:19 PM

Jan 2014

but how much sympathy I personally show is irrelevant. I might not feel any sympathy if someone who raped and murdered someone were put through a meat grinder feet first, eaten by dogs, or subjected to any number of horrors. It wouldn't make any of those actions ethical or less barbaric. The criminal justice system shouldn't exist to satisfy whatever angry emotion I may be feeling towards a criminal, especially considering how many flaws there are in the system that leads to someone being given the death penalty.

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In regards to the guy who took 25 minutes to die in agony [View all] unreadierLizard Jan 2014 OP

Feel better? 1000words Jan 2014 #1

No. unreadierLizard Jan 2014 #2

BS pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #19

How about this country? In places like Iraq under Hussein eg, people were executed and we were sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #26

Yeah, what a slacker! mindwalker_i Jan 2014 #3

Its not about feeling sorry, it violates the Constitution. JaneyVee Jan 2014 #4

Your attitude is exactly we have a criminal justice system AgingAmerican Jan 2014 #5

Exactly, thank you! 'Revenge is not justice'. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #27

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It's not a matter of feeling sorry for him IDemo Jan 2014 #6

Exactly. And the fact that the more $$$ you have = better representation. JaneyVee Jan 2014 #8

Please point out exactly who is telling you to have sympathy for the guy. NuclearDem Jan 2014 #7

Well, I am. Chan790 Jan 2014 #12

He is from the next county up from my house...about 20 miles away. FarPoint Jan 2014 #9

Yawn. Chan790 Jan 2014 #10

torture culture bobduca Jan 2014 #18

I wouldn't like to see an animal die like that Red Mountain Jan 2014 #11

Not only that his family had to witness that. Should the Cleita Jan 2014 #14

Well then, I think we should time their deaths to be just one second longer than that of Sheldon Cooper Jan 2014 #13

And YOU support torture. What does that make YOU? Th1onein Jan 2014 #15

I don't feel sorry for him Bradical79 Jan 2014 #16

It is not about sympathy. avebury Jan 2014 #17

I don't support the death penalty for several reasons XemaSab Jan 2014 #20

So I take it we're against gladiator fights? CFLDem Jan 2014 #21

Do you feel okay with torture? R. Daneel Olivaw Jan 2014 #22

It's not about "feeling sorry" for anyone. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2014 #23

This makes it difficult, doesn't it? rustydog Jan 2014 #24

I don't feel sorry for rapists or murderers either. I feel sorry for this country's descent into sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #25

capital punishment KT2000 Jan 2014 #29

I do not support capital punishment, but I don't care about how long this ghoul took to die... Demo_Chris Jan 2014 #30

"Everything that degrades the conscience of the nation enhances the power of Napoleon" struggle4progress Jan 2014 #31

No empathy whatsoever? Heidi Jan 2014 #32

We should have tortured him slower tkmorris Jan 2014 #33

Let's forget empathy or any soft hearted lib'rul thing nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #34

Many, convicted "murderers" have been wrongly convicted -- and put to death. Arugula Latte Jan 2014 #35

One wonders how it is that SheilaT Jan 2014 #36