Irrespective of one's views on capital punishment, is it reasonable to keep a man in legal limbo for 24 years? In the old Australian penal colonies, there used...
... While personally I am opposed to the death penalty, I should mention a few facts here: - It is the choice of the person about to be executed to delay the ...
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Dec 13, 2005 8:02 pm
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... As has been noted before, the decision to keep him in legal limbo was his, not the State's. ... It depends on what you're going for. The long delay...
My own personal opinion is that (1) capital punishment takes too long to carry out to be effective as a "deterent". They need to speed up the process. (2)...
Peter, How could the lawyers make millions at taxpayer expense if they wrapped up the appeals quickly? How much money did Tookies lawyers make over 25 years...
For some reason I can't quite put my finger on, making lawyers fatter is not high on my list of priorities. :-) Regards Peter ... From: "William Highfield"...
... Unless you can get a court to declare that an inmate is incapable of participating in his own defense, then he gets to run the show. Sometimes a relative...
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Is President Ahmadinejad a CIA agent? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4529198.stm If the US government were to want to build a "coalition of the...
... Why, has he been using EU airports for his prisoners? ;^p ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4529198.stm ... IMHO he's trying to see how far...
Greg, I have an Iranian brother-in-law, so I can tell you straight ; Iranians are NOT Ay-rabs, and are indeed highly prejudiced against them. What's more, they...
Hello Ian, ... I wish to point out that "Islam" is ... I'm 100% with you. Far be it from me to ignore history and the complexities it brings to any situation....
... Probably. It could be an embargo, it could be a security council vote that's not vetoed by anyone, I don't know. Whatever it takes to make one realize his ...
... LOL! Fair enough! :^) ... The Peace Prize is a heavily political one, that tends to highlight cpntemporary political agendas rather than anything else. In...
... In what way do you consider the Nobel Prize in Literature to be a "technical" choice? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature -- The Nobel...
... I compared it to the Peace one. It's technical compared to that. Apart from Churchill, I don't recall any other author who was awarded the Literature Prize...
... Is it really that much easier to decide what author has most "benefitted all of mankind" than to decide what politician has most "benefitted all of...
... Have to be honest, I'd consider the Hugo awards more important to my choice of books to read than I would the Nobel Prize in Literature. I'm still not ...
... To chose an artist you rely on subjective factors, such as personal taste. It's not easy. Not even for purely scientific areas such as chemistry; how do...
Hello Paul, ... Yes, but my vote as a commitee member is not influenced by current political dynamics. The final decision is almost always a snapshot of the...
And Gandhi didn't! Cheers, Deepak ... From: Gregory Alexopoulos To: CAT23-Achat@yahoogroups.com But for a commitee to award a peace prize? It's less of a...
... Well that is easily explained. To the average joe the Oscars are infinitely more important awards than the Nobel Prize. Not to mention the average joe...
... Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissinger Supporting dicators, funding and organizing covert interventions, the Cambodian bombing, the Chilean...
... From: "Paul Riley" <pdriley23@...> Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [RiskBSW] Ad breaks in the USA (Re: Re: GG of Australia) ......
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