Electorial College explained....

[-ammo-]

 

Originally posted by Jammer:
I've yet to see any indication, statistical or other, that the death penalty is actually working as a way to reduce homicide rates. To be absolutely sure to save innocent lives you have to enforce this penalty preemptive, ie execute the person before he actually kill anyone.


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Cheers,

Well, take a look at some of the middle eastern Countries, ie.. Saudi Arabia, Iran.

They are a REAL good exaple of how well Capital punishment can be very effective.

[Jammer]

 

Originally posted by -ammo-:

Well, take a look at some of the middle eastern Countries, ie.. Saudi Arabia, Iran.

They are a REAL good exaple of how well Capital punishment can be very effective.

Is that tha kind of country you want to live in? Summarial trials, no jury, decapitation on the town square. Confessions under torture, dictatorship rule and very harsch religious control. The list can go on.

I don't think that your statement was serious, no? If it was, I suggest that you find out some more fact before you make assumptions like that.

for example look at
 www.amnesty.com

Cheers,

[Dowding]

Adding to Jammer's list:

In Saudi, an elderly British couple were recently sentenced to be publicly flogged for alledgedly making their own alcohol in their own home (a crime by Shariah law, although a blind eye is usually turned to Westerners). They are in prison at the moment, and the women needs constant medical attention and drugs for a bad back - reckon she'll survive a flogging?

How about living under a government that actively surpresses dissent through torture (including rape)?

And Kuwait is just as bad (don't believe the crap we were fed about the time of the Gulf War, portraying Kuwait as a bastion of democracy and civilisation).

But it doesn't matter as long as they buy our planes, tanks and ships does it?

I hope ammo was being sarcastic...



[This message has been edited by Dowding (edited 11-18-2000).]