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Re: Capital Punishment: The Bloody Hands of the State
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Dec 04, 2003 - 06:15 PM
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Exactly, tho like I said I feel it's not so much "wrong" as it is just pointless and innefective. I wholeheartedly feel that some people just deserve to die, but their death isn't my decision to make, nor a jury of their peers. I would probably feel differently if a loved one of mine was murdered, I'll attest to that.
Another good movie that could deal with the criminal's point of murder/death penalty is "american history x". The main character was jailed for the murder of two black men, and in jail came to understand the wrongness of his mentality, how ugly and pointless and ignorant it was, how it was hurtful not just to himself but to everyone and was able to turn his life around and what CAUSED this mindset to develop (the subtle racism of his father on top of the fact that he felt bullied in a neighborhood mostly inhabitied by other ethnicities, and then his father's death fighting a fire in a black neighborhood, which his father had already pointed out as "useless"). Again, I would rather pay my taxes and see a "good at heart but gone wrong" person turn themselves around, or support a thousand horrible criminals than put one innocent or redeemable person to death.
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