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Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Capital Punishment. This has always been a challenging subject for me. That's right, folks, the opinionated Kristen has officially been stumped. I just cannot make up my mind about what justifies the death penalty.

We discussed this oh-so-exciting ethical subject in class last night. Then I asked Al his thoughts. My favorite of Al's insights: Rape justifies capital punishiment. "Drug offenders get more time than rapists!" Drug offenders really only hurt themselves, but rapists take something from someone else and leave them alive to be constantly reminded of it.

I think that I have come to at least one definite conclusion among this indecisiveness and that is Texas should keep the death penalty specifically for this reason: G.W. Bush should be dragged back to his homeland, put on trial for the murder of thousands of innocent civilians and lying to national and international audiences (if he could be tried for prejudice, I would encourage that as well, but it just wouldn't fly in Texas). He then would be given capital punishment and we can watch the couple Republican protesters outside with their silly signs (and then laugh because they are the pro-capital punishment majority anyway). Then he should be given the punishment he deserves: to be lied to, blacklisted, tortured, relatives houses be bombed and finally he should die while the families of those he has hurt (which would constitute the United States middle class public, Liberians, Iraqis and more).

So I guess I'm a bit more decided about the death penalty. Excellent.

.: posted by Kristen 11:10 AM

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