[PEN-L:3915] Re: death penalty for racist beast

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote: >>is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because (1)
if anyone does, John William King (and his yet-to-be-tried sidekicks)
deserve the death penalty but (2) they have a principled opposition to the
death penalty?<<

Bill Lear writes: >Pre-meditated murder is wrong.  Nobody deserves the
death penalty, because the death penalty --- premeditated murder carried
out by the state --- is a barbaric act with no moral justification
whatsoever. Why, retaining your humanity, and rising above the braying for
blood, should you feel queasy?<

because it sure looks like J.W. King deserves what he's getting. It's like
the old mindgame: if you had the opportunity to assasinate Hitler in 1922
(or 1932), would you?

In the same thread, Wojtek writes: >I have absolutely no problems with
exterminating the nazi vermin, by legal
means or otherwise.<

I hope that you no longer apply terms like "nazi vermin" to people like the
ex-governor of California (and bad guy) Pete Wilson.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html