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In reply to the discussion: Amherst County murderer executed by electric chair [View all]BuddhaGirl
(3,601 posts)72. yes - he belongs in solitary, or whatever
You cannot rationalize the DP.
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You're defining any killing as a murder, ergo stripping the word of any meaning.
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#42
Ok. So, you are implicitly answering those questions you've previously refused to?
harmonicon
Jan 2013
#46
To put it another way--was his execution a prosecutable crime according to the
geek tragedy
Jan 2013
#47
If it is state sanctioned, then it is still illegal, even if it is not considered "murder."
Socal31
Jan 2013
#71
I don't think solitary confinement for the rest of his life would have added much more significant..
Tom Ripley
Jan 2013
#29
So you're okay with the U.S. being the only country in the western hemisphere that has the DP?
BuddhaGirl
Jan 2013
#49