Bill, How about the death penalty for CEOs of factories/mines who make decisions that they have been told beforehand will cause deaths...? The cases would have to be clear cut of course...to be fair...and of course, those who are accused would have to have access to the available Public Defender...to be fair of course...
Steve
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, W. Kiernan wrote:
>
> I'm one to talk! since I am in favor of the death penalty for clear cut
> convictions for first-degree murder, but my feeling is that the electric
> chair, the gas chamber, lethal injection are all too bureaucratic,
> responsibility-free, mechanical, distant and inhuman. The leather
> head-mask, how revolting. If I were dictating the laws, I would offer a
> choice of self-administered poison or a firing squad. That way the
> subject of the execution would stand up straight and look his killers in
> the eye.
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net
>