Connecticut abolishes the Death penalty

Frankly, IMNSHO, Dahmer got what was coming. And the child rapers. There is a certain code in the prison, similar to the job questionnaire asking of the applicant's drug experience: Alcohol, check. Marijuana, check. Acid, check. Cocaine, check. Amphetamines, check. Heroin, check. Sniffing glue - WHAT? Sniffing glue? NO WAY! - only an idiot would sniff glue! A lifetime sentence for a prisoner is fraught with these sorts of relative moralities. For the believers, they can rest in solace, knowing what will happen to the lifers who really were the most heinous. And they could be argued to rest in solace about what would happen to the innocent. I suppose this is similar to the bizarre notion of throwing a grenade into a room of battling soldiers, exclaiming loudly "God will sort them out!"Let them all gnaw on Dahmer's thawed-out fingers......*urp* Edited by xongsmith, : my bracket-slash-"oni"- bracket did not show up as advertized in the preview

Straggler grumbles: defence: when the legal enforcement team successfully pulls off a sting operation at the point of a live transaction of stolen goods for small unmarked bills, returning the stolen goods to their rightful owner. Furthermore, when one member of the team, who lives right next door to another member of the same team, then goes home and removes the posts & rails between them....and then, retiring to his bedroom, in candlelight to read again some more Robert Frost.

Onifre (quoting Granny in the inner box) writes: And later Onifre adds: If we divide the innocent deaths problem like this, then we can treat each subproblem with a separate solution. The first problem is solved by arming cops with non-lethal "bullets", a technology problem that may be possible soon. The second problem is most likely intractable because the citizens will always need a way to revolt against their government - we have to live with it. The third problem is the one most easily solved: just stop doing it.Just because two of the problems cannot be solved easily, doesn't mean that the one of them that is easy to solve shouldn't solved. One size (living with it) does not fit all.In conjunction with the 1st problem, there is also the High-Speed Chase problem which may result in collateral damages and death to innocents - this may also be replaced with a technological solution of corralling the suspect more gently.The second problem may be approached in the manner of the old Western saloon, where you check your guns at the door before you are allowed inside. Certain inner city areas could be declared a saloon in this manner. Does this still maintain the citizenry's ability to revolt (provided they haven't already lost this ability*)?So, yeah, I give a shit.* IMHO it's too late - "they" have nuclear weapons, tanks & missilesEdited by xongsmith, : The agony of clone-drop in the wrong place.

Ramoss writes: Interesting to recall this Bob Dylan verse here:"Took an untrodden path once, where the swift don't win the race,
It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
Took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice's beautiful face
And to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.I and I
In creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives.
I and I
One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives."