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doktorzoom's avatar

If premeditated killing is wrong, we shouldn't be doing it. Life in prison is plenty. Also, you can't un-execute someone if new evidence is found.

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doktorzoom's avatar

That's one clause in my contract I keep trying to get Rebecca to budge on.

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Alexander Stallwitz's avatar

I once read an piece that argued that if you are an real Christian, you are anti-death penalty and that's its revenge pure and simple. the irony wasn't lost on me that an majority of the Evangelicals would say "throw the switch and fry their ass"

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Tiny kaiju's avatar

Or, I suppose for the men anyway, the execution scene from Monty Python's Meaning of Life.

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Querolous's avatar

But how did she get her hands on Cruz's college pillow?

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theCryptofishist's avatar

Damn, you're right. I hadn't even thought that far.

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theCryptofishist's avatar

He wrote all the good stuff...

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Lamashtar's avatar

"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord."

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L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

It's used because it doesn't oxidise. Connectors in aircraft, as an example, are always gold-plated so that they always work - the last thing you want at 32,000 feet is for a component to fail because of corrosion. A small difference in conductivity really doesn't matter here.

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Antonin Dvorak's avatar

and treason.

Exactly how many treason cases do we get?

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bubbuhh's avatar

Why is the number germane? It's on the books as being a Capital Crime?

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Antonin Dvorak's avatar

Just the way you stated it, implied that unsolved/badly prosecuted treason cases are just as common as similar murder cases.

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Good_Gawd_Yall - Unperson's avatar

Given the mental qualities of the one neurosurgeon I know of, I wouldn't take advice on anything from a neurosurgeon, including, probably, neurosurgery.

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GeminiCricket's avatar

(I saw her do it, but was afraid to say anything...)

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Ghenghis McCann's avatar

The Truth Is Out There.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

It depends on whether they really tie the room together.

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