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roughsatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 12:13 PM
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7. It is not constitutional for punishment to come from the General Pop.
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 12:14 PM by roughsatori
That is the job of the courts. If you support the death penalty for any reason--you support it. It is not equivocal. If you honestly think child molesting scum should be slowly tortured to death, then the system must administer that punishment; not the men in the general population. Torture is also against the law at this time--so you will need work to make that legal. Or we could just return to vigilantism. Expecting and approving of inmates to administer justice only hurts all of us in a society.

Also, he has not been convicted or signed a plea agreement by a jury of his peers yet.

I have been an advocate for victims of child-abuse and have counciled many. But my own belief is that taking a life at any stage, for any reason, is destructive to all sentient beings.
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