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[regicide]

WISCONSIN SHOULD HAVE THE DEATH PENALTY


JOHN MCADAMS


http://www.wpri.org/pages/author.html

The positions
people sometimes
take on
political issues seem
driven more by emotion
than reason, and
nothing better illustrates
this than views
on the death penalty.
This policy seems to
tap basic social values,
but in ways that are
more symbolic than
substantive.
Without denying
for a moment that this
is true of both sides,
we are especially concerned
with the minority who oppose the
death penalty. Their basic desire�not wanting
to see people killed�seems laudable
enough. The problem comes when they fixate
on this issue. While it is laudable not to want
to kill people, very few death penalty opponents
are pacifists�which means they have no
objection to killing people if the reason is good
enough.
Further, the criminal justice system does
nasty things to people other than killing them.
Yet death penalty opponents seem to have few
qualms about imprisonment (at least, when the
death penalty is being discussed).1 Wanting to
avoid the evils associated with execution, they
give the impression that the choice is between
a deeply flawed system of capital punishment
and a pristine system of imprisonment.


John McAdams is an Associate Professor of Political
Science at Marquette University.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Is there a particular reason you posted a nearly two-year old article with no comment? How many posters out of the dozen or so regular posters here do you think are from Wisconsin?

[regicide]

[saw6436]

Why don't we just get Dave to start a new forum devoted to crazy ass conspiracy theory shite. That way the CE forum could be about, I don't know, CURRENT EVENTS perhaps.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Kuros]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[JMO]

Seems like a reasonable enough position to take on the death penalty even if I don't agree with him personally.


I'd like to know what you find objectionable on his point of view on the death penalty. Specifically dealing with the points he made please. And don't mention JFK. The death penalty is a much more interesting topic and I'm glad you brought it up.

[Ya-ta Boy]

JMO,

The post was made to discredit the writer. Don't ask me how exactly, because regi thinks in a world all his own, but somehow McAdams' views on the death penalty are connected to his being a lousy judge of what happened in Dallas in 1963.