I've been off the list for almost a week (due to attending the Eastern Economic Association meetings in Boston, along with Max, :-)). But I had stayed out of this thread before, since people seemed to be beating up on old Max fairly effectively, if at times a bit inconsistently.
However, I am the Faculty Advisor to Amnesty International on my campus, where we have the biggest Young Republicans Club in the US. Virginia is also third in executions in the country, behind Texas and Florida (much bigger states), with some bad cases having gone all the way. We have also managed to free a couple of innocent people, as well.
AI opposes the death penalty everywhere and in all cases, and so do I for reasons that have been previously articulated by others on this list. Barkley Rosser Professor of Economics James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia USA -----Original Message----- From: Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 3:35 PM Subject: RE: death penalty
>> But, if upper class men and politicos start getting death
>sentences - that point all but disappears, no? (I personally have
>no problems with executing or otherwise disposing of upper class
>men who view themselves above the law).
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>You're coming in after all the action on this, Wojtek. This
>thread is dead.
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>People are happy (some, anyway) to have executions under
>socialism, but not under capitalism. So under capitalism, the
>powerful use capital punishment to discipline the population,
>whereas under socialism it is completely similar.
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