Politics of Crime and Economic Change

[William S. Lear]

On Monday, March 8, 1999 at 11:59:27 (-0500) Max Sawicky writes:
>...
>Nor need one be indifferent to the political uses of criminal
>justice to come back to a justification for capital punishment.
>Note that even a kind of principled support for the death penalty
>has no necessary implications for one's support of the current
>size of the prison population or for the current policy of
>punishment across the board.

I still don't get it.  You never answered me before: You are
advocating the premeditated murder of a defenseless human being.  What
could be right or principled about that.  That is the very definition
of barbarity and cowardice.

Bill