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LongTomH

(8,636 posts) Fri Jan 6, 2017, 09:17 PM Jan 2017

What would it do to you to watch people die for a living?

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What would it do to you to watch people die for a living? (Original Post) LongTomH Jan 2017 OP

If British hangmen were any indication, often alcoholism and or suicide. Sen. Walter Sobchak Jan 2017 #1

I live in Texas and could not be more against the death penalty! Dustlawyer Jan 2017 #2

I don't even have to watch it... Victor_c3 Jan 2017 #3

Sen. Walter Sobchak

(8,692 posts)

1. If British hangmen were any indication, often alcoholism and or suicide.

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Fri Jan 6, 2017, 09:27 PM

Jan 2017

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)

2. I live in Texas and could not be more against the death penalty!

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Sat Jan 7, 2017, 12:51 AM

Jan 2017

As an attorney i see jury's get it wrong many times in civil cases. When you see some people approach jury service on a mission, and there are several on each jury panel of 40-50 people, you know why many jury's get it wrong. When you speak to them after a case and hear why or what caused them to find the way they did it can be shocking.

I think life in prison is more harsh than the death penalty and there are do overs as the Innocence project has proven time and again. It is barbaric and no extra deterrent to murder.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)

3. I don't even have to watch it...

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Sat Jan 7, 2017, 11:21 PM

Jan 2017

As an Infantryman who served in Iraq I got paid to kill. It has absolutely destroyed my life.

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