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What should they have sentenced him?
Death Penalty 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Life in prison 85%  85%  [ 11 ]
Let him go 15%  15%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 13
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:42 pm 
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Man, how did i know there would be a thread on this? How did i know it would be this stupid? :bang:

Seriously, though. The decision we got was way better than execution, for a whole host of reasons. For all of his "Hah! America has lost!" bluster, the wannabe-hijacker sure deflated pretty quick.

He lost, and he lost badly. The only victory he had was that we paid attention to him--which seems to have been his goal, first with AQ and then with us, all along.

But the Republican Party wants to whip up support against our court system ("Oh noes! The corts have failed!"), so here we are!

Idiocy :evil:

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:03 pm 
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themadthinker wrote:
George W. Bush wrote:
"The Convention on the Rights of the Child may be a positive tool for promoting child welfare for those countries that have adopted it. But we believe the text goes too far when it asserts entitlements based on economic, social and cultural rights. ... The human rights-based approach ... poses significant problems as used in this text."


The real reason? The USA wanted to execute 16 year olds. Seriously, why did it take until last year for something like Roper v. Simmons to occur? Prior to that, anyone over 16 could be executed. And it wasn't until 2002 that the Supreme Court stated that a mentally retarded adult couldn't be executed. Congratulations, even fucking Bosnia does better than you.


Bush may have competely and utterly fucked up the explanation by exhibiting his usual incompetence and appalling oratory skills, but it's a fair and valid point that he was failing to make. What's wrong with executing 16 year olds, in extreme cases? It's not like they'll go shooting schoolchildren on the drop of a hat. They just want to be able to try the same as an adult the ones that are mass murderers or whatever.

And Id debate whether a mental disability is automatically a "Get out of jail free" card when it comes to murder.

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Cenwood wrote:
What's wrong with executing 16 year olds, in extreme cases? It's not like they'll go shooting schoolchildren on the drop of a hat. They just want to be able to try the same as an adult the ones that are mass murderers or whatever.

Will they? I find that hard to believe.

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