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[Sergei SOLOVIEV]

My impression that partly behind these discussions there is an illusion 
that perfection
is possible in  t h i s world.

No "life confinement" is truly guaranteed - how many times Charles 
Manson did apply
for release? His last demand was refused, but ... Similar with other members
of his gang, and I am not sure that all were refused. The guy in France who
got a lot of publicity because he was the first to get life confinement 
instead
of capital punishment when it was abolished in 70es was released 2 or 3 
years ago
(his crime: to kidnap the child of his friends, to ask for ransom, and
to continue to ask even after he killed the child - before he was captured
nobody knew that he was a kidnapper). After his liberation he was
quickly imprisoned again - this time he was involved in drug traffic.

regards to all

Sergei Soloviev

António Pedro Marques wrote:
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (12-04-2012 17:09):
>> I've stayed mostly out of this because I'm actually conflicted about
>> the death penalty.
>>
>> I'm against it at a gut level, but ...
>>
>> What do you do with someone who is in jail for life and commits a
>> brutal murder there? You can't exactly give him another life sentence.
>
> There's solitary confinement.
>
>> 2012/4/12 António Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>:
>>> That's all very well, Marc, but except in a very limited number of 
>>> cases
>>> society can't be sure the person is really guilty, and laws aren't 
>>> made for
>>> a very limited number of cases. For some, the issue may be the 
>>> ethics of
>>> killing a murderer; for most, the issue is the ethics of killing a 
>>> potential
>>> innocent just for the kicks of avenging blood with blood.
>>>
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