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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
What beautiful, gentle words! Many would do well to commit them to memory! They contrast so starkly with the brutality, cruelty and senselessness of this horrible event. The decision to go ahead with the executions last night sickened me. A shamefully inhumane and ignorant decision IMO.
Though I happen to be a supporter of the death penalty for the most heinous and premeditated of murders and when there is no doubt about guilt, no sentence should preclude the administering of mercy and compassion when it is so clearly earned as it was, by all accounts, in this case.
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While we are likely to get some hard line eye for an eye, they should'a known better, what they did would have harmed others and other unforgiving sentiments on this topic that in my opinion completely miss the point here, I would really truly like to think that the vast bulk of us think essentially the same way as you Graham and Marcus because in the end without mercy what do we all become....?
Mike