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In <1781@tekgen.bv.tek.com> tkpowell@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Terry Powell) writes:

>In article <1853@rwing.UUCP> pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
>>
>->I found it more than a little curious how the ACLU could claim 'cruel
>->and unusual' punishment for Dodd, seeing as that was what he REQUESTED...
>->Kinda makes one wonder if the motive was more to get headlines than any
>->concern for the nature of the punishment...  the selective defense of
>->the Bill of Rights, replete with 'creative' interpretations, depending
>->on how it fits their agenda and how much free publicity it will garner is
>->a well known practice of the ACLU.

>I believe Dodd requested hanging because he didn't want to spend the rest
>of his life in a 5 X 12 cell.  To him that was worse punishment.  If
>punishment was what we are really after, confining him to a tiny cell
>might have been the best way to go.  I, however am glad they hung the
>little scum.  Seemed appropriate to me.  The ACLU actions seemed
>appropriate. Hey they're lawyers too.  Just playing the legal game.  Do
>you think they have a lock on creative interpretations of the Bill of
>Rights?  I think not.

Maybe their approach should have been that since he REQUESTED to die, that
that is the same as attempted suicide, and since suicide is illegal, he 
shouldn't have been able to have the state assist him with it...

Just a random thought.

Crystal 
   ;>