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12-12-2005, 11:15 PM
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Re: Tookie, tookie, tookie... what about the victims?
I love all the western countries with the death penalty, oh wait, we're the only one....
Anyway, what does killing him accomplish? He is a murderer, but from prison he has been writing childrens books and urging kids not to join gangs or get involved in gang violence. Dead, he can do nothing, alive, whether he means it or not, he can help people. He cant hurt anyone else... 
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12-12-2005, 11:32 PM
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Re: Tookie, tookie, tookie... what about the victims?
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He cant hurt anyone else... [/ QUOTE ] Not true. I oppose the death penalty, but in the interest of getting the facts right, he has attacked prison guards and sexually assaulted other prisoners since he's been in jail. I wonder if he included that in his children's books.
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12-12-2005, 11:41 PM
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Re: Tookie, tookie, tookie... what about the victims?
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[ QUOTE ] He cant hurt anyone else... [/ QUOTE ] Not true. I oppose the death penalty, but in the interest of getting the facts right, he has attacked prison guards and sexually assaulted other prisoners since he's been in jail. [/ QUOTE ] This is important information. As a catholic, I too like some of the other posters here have gone to being against the death penalty in most cases as a result of Pope John Paul II's teachings, and his view, now part of our catechism, that it should not be used because society has the means to incarcerate such killers to protect itself without killing them. But when they continue such actions even inside prison which shows that other prisoners and guards are at risk from them, then I am in favor the of death penalty being used on them. Unless those actions were solely restricted to his first few years in prison, then I would now have no qualms about his being executed if the above information is accurate.
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