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As a follow-up to last month's debate about capital punishment:
Some who oppose capital punishment suggest life imprisonment as an alternative.
Imprisonment did not stop Clarence Ray Allen from orchestrating the murders of those who testified against him in his original trial. His first sentence was life without parole, but he still posed a danger to law-abiding citizens.
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Human Rights Watch has sunk to a new level of hypocrisy, with their call not to execute the Butcher of Baghdad (and Agence France-Presse's full assistance in spreading such vile excrement). Why they wish to grant him rights which his
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Your example is a good one. For those who are categorically opposed to capital punishment, what do you do with an inmate who is serving multiple life terms, no parole, no further appeal avenues, and he kills a prison guard? Take away his dayroom privileges?
--and don't you dare tell me it was "The System" that drove him to kill the guard!
Nor did it stop Donald "pee-wee" Gaskins who killed an inmate while they were both in prison using a bomb, a precursor to the IEDs used by terrorists in Iraq.
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