Fornits
General Interest => Open Free for All => Topic started by: Anonymous on January 31, 2006, 10:03:00 PM
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http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/ (http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/)
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"An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison. It adds to death a rule, a public premeditation known to the future victim, an organization which is itself a source of moral sufferings more terrible than death. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
Albert Camus---"Reflections on the Guillotine, Resistance, Rebellion & Death" (1966).
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Yes, good catch pointing out that quote.
Although the retribution advocates like
that.
The other problem with the death penalty
is that it has never proven to be a
deterrent.
The outrageous amounts spent on the 300
or so in California's death penalty
cases would probably fund most current
education programs to teach kids crime
is not such a great idea, inspite
of what they watch on tv!