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What in the hell does this have to do with Meijers???  Change the subject!!



In article <2e0260INN5ta@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu> cermak@cis.ohio-state.edu (gerald frank cermak) writes:
>In article <greg.n.smith.192.00086354@daytonoh.ncr.com> greg.n.smith@daytonoh.ncr.com (Greg Smith) writes:
>>>Is your property more valuable than someone else's life?  Is _this_ the
>>>attitude our country was founded upon?  I think _NOT_.
>>
>>Back then they used to hang people in public for stealing horses (property). 
>
>It was considered the same as murder to steal someone's horse 
>because of the importance of the horse to man in those times.  A man
>could literally die if his horse was stolen from him in certain
>situations (Indians, deserts, etc.).
>
>They also used to practice slavery, should we bring that back too?
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>>It IS an attitude our country was founded on.  Maybe if they brought back 
>>hangings we'd have less crime, eh?
>
>There has never been any statistical evidence correlating decreased crime
>with increased executions.  NEVER.
>
>While it is true that capital punishment was used for crimes in
>addition to murder and treason (burglary, rape, and other felonies),
>This was a carry over from Europian Laws.  I believe the founding
>fathers of this country saw something better than that, when they
>wrote the constition.
>
>Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia states:
>
>"Reform of the death penalty began in Europe by the 1750s, and was
>championed by such thinkers as the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria,
>the French philosopher Voltaire, and the English law reformer Jeremy
>Bentham.  They argued that the death penalty was needlessly cruel,
>overrated as a deterrent, and occasionally imposed in fatal error.
>Along with Quaker leaders and other social reformers, they defended
>life imprisonment as a more rational alternative."
>
>
>Gerry Cermak
>student
>
>"Law makers typically lag 20 years behind common-thought"  - unknown.
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