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[PolyChronic Time Girl]

***Now, my rant here deals with all convicted murders that have admitted guilt or have been caught in the act or just have such stronge forensic evidence against them... they should be executed.

You guys are all saying how "uncivilized" it is to do the death penalty, but let me ask you this: were the killers "civilized" when they dragged an innocent 6-year-old girl to the woods, raped her, and hacked off all her body parts? Why should we treat scum of the earth civilized? Not every human being should be on this planet. Plus, it costs taxpayers much more money to keep them in prison, when the easiest, most cost-effective solution would be just to get rid of them. I actually think electrocuting them is too civilized for them...they get to die within a few seconds, unlike the hours of horror their victims encountered before their throats were choked/slit.

Personally, if I were the relative of a slain family member, I would insist that I flip the switch.

[merlot]

[VanIslander]

PolyChronicTimeGirl, you speak as if the system is infallible, when even pro-death penalty advocates ADMIT that a system could not guarrantee that innocent people would not be killed.

[gypsyfish]

[itaewonguy]

[SPINOZA]

It's the same in Thailand, IG.

Smuggle heroin out of the country and you're looking at the death penalty or 40-odd years in a Thai prison. It's bizarre if you ask me. Bringing drugs into the country I could understand but quite why it's deemed necessary to execute folks taking stuff out of the country I'm not sure - perhaps someone can explain.

You've gotta be pretty stupid to try and smuggle H out of Singapore, however (assuming it wasn't planted on him by unscrupulous smugglers - ever seen 'Bangkok Hilton'?). When you land at Singapore, a big sign says "death penalty to all drug smugglers". He took the risk, paid the price. I feel for him and his mother because, IMHO, there are far worse crimes in the world, but he's been the master of his downfall there. 15 ounces of H is a lot - I'd be surprised if it were for his own personal use.

[Reflections]

Actually Grotto, if you were referring to the Singaporean case and I think you were, then you obviously don't have the full facts.

Just on CNN last nite, there was a Singaporean minister with major allegations that the Singapore governement has been doing deals with Burmese drug lords. The story seems very credible. So, they are executing little guys like the Australian and letting go the big fish who are getting dope into Singapore.

Hypocrisy at its highest point. Check it out>

[itaewonguy]

[Deconstructor]

Executing members of a given society tells me the following: that the executioners are terrified of the members or their own society. Execution of a human being demonstrates utter and absolute mediocrity at work, profound lack of imagination and downright stupidity in infinite abundance.

I guess I should scrap my plans of going to Singapore where I was thinking of pissing on a sidewalk with a Hustler magazine under my arm, a chewing gum in my mouth and a sign hanging around my neck saying: Singapore is a nation of morons.

[Bee Positive]

Every man's death diminishes me.

Why?

Because I am involved in mankind.

Humanity is an abstraction. The human race is an idea too big for us to adequately comprehend.

The individual human being, as representative of the entire race, the entire species, the only truly intelligent lifeform we know of, is in a very real sense all that we have.

Capital punishment is thus a catastrophe. It makes no more sense than suicide.

I felt sick all day yesterday. While I sat and enjoyed an omelette breakfast, my fellow human being was blindfolded, roped, and destroyed. His spinal cord was snapped. He died for nothing.

I can't understand how anyone cannot be moved to feelings of pity and disgust and horror and dismay at the mere thought of it.

Twenty-five years old. His crime? Possession of an extract of the poppy flower. 400 grams. A plant made by God, given for the benefit of the sick and the suffering.

Can you imagine the psychological torment of knowing that you are scheduled to die a violent death tomorrow morning?

And knowing that society approves it.

You will be shown no mercy. Your neck will be snapped, you will die horrifically and brutally. You will never eat or drink or love again.

I suggest that we boycott Singapore. I will NEVER visit there, nor will I EVER AGAIN fly Singapore Air. I mean that very, very seriously too. I have a long memory. Singapore is out. A horrible, wicked, evil country which is guilty of nothing less than premeditated murder, the willful destruction of a human being on grounds which make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Imagine a criminal mass-murdering psycopath who has somehow managed to acquire a small island, has run up a silly little flag with a few stars on it, proclaimed himself sovereign, and then set about murdering people in cold blood under the color of law. It's sick. It's demented. It makes me question everything. How can we have gone so wrong as a species that there even IS a Singapore in this world?

As for America, well, I left for many reasons. Brutality in the criminal "justice" system being one of them. I'm not going back.



BEE POSITIVE

[Deconstructor]

[VanIslander]

Singapore is the place where BUBBLE GUM was banned until recently because it was unsightly. I wonder what kind of sentence was handed out to violators of that draconian law.

[The Man known as The Man]

[Hater Depot]

I heard you actually need a license to chew gum.

[desultude]