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- piperboytoy0
I think he was convicted for killing 4 people, but who knows how many people die as a result of his gang! it's just guilty by association.
- ********0
they should let him live if he's been productive. also it gives aholes like tim robbins something to cream their jeans about.
- prodigalslacker0
kill him.
a) who knows his impact in history. gang violence is an awful thing and spills into every aspect of culture, and in modern society, even though he 'only' killed 4 people directly, who knows how many are dead due to his actions.
b) people should be doing what he did in jail anyway. we should all try to be better people, we should try to help out each other BY DEFAULT. we should not be rewarded with our lives for being a good person.
c) if he dies a martyr, then maybe more people will see that actions have consequences and try and live better lives.
- soda0
c) if he dies a martyr, then maybe more people will see that actions have consequences and try and live better lives.
prodigalslacker
(Dec 10 05, 16:42)that's a big contradiction there. You make him a martyr for the wrong cause by killing. he has more influence for good alive than he does executed.
A convicted man who repents his sins from prison is of more influence than a convincted man who repents and is killed with the media on him.
Just because a lot of people here have said he shouldn't die don't assume we think he should be free.
I don't.
He's guilty and should spend his days in prison for what he has done.
But if he can be of some use in prison, stopping some other idiot doing what he did by showing he knows the error of his ways... that has to be a good justification to keep him alive.
- prodigalslacker0
if i thought he should liev, i too think he should stay in prison.
i guess i meant martyr as in, well, hopefully - his memory will be that of a man on a quest for peace, to undo his wrongs, and that will be what is remembered.
riots, gangs breaking out in his 'honor' would be awful, and would of course defeat what he worked for.
i guess i am just an idealist and hope that his trying to make up for what he did and get the message across to youths would be carried on - if not amplified - by his death.
- algorithm0
in my opinion you can't redeem yourself after murdering someone.
You have taken a life, you have affected others for a lifetime.
It is the greatest of sins and you should pay for it. No matter what you have done after it.
- ********0
this thread reminds me again of the many narrow minds that reside here.
too bad.
- algorithm0
narrow? hmmmm, I don't know.
try having somone murder your mother and see how you feel about the situation.
- ********0
interesting.
why do you feel i was talking to you?
and why are you putting me on one side?
- algorithm0
i am not and didn't. Just felt like a blanketed statement.
- algorithm0
actually , i am torn on the death penalty.
I just feel it is wrong on the publicity this cat is getting while the countless others just sit, while jamie foxx, ed asner and snoop kiss this guys ass.
- ********0
well i am just terrified of the idea that we legally justify our killings by killing a killer.
we will all be beasts again.
but without me please.
- algorithm0
it definately is a strange time to be alive.
- ********0
i am 99% against death penalty.
in rare cases i will close my eyes for it and nod.
- ********0
you can say that indeed!
- algorithm0
i can probably say the same.
Personally i would rather die than spend my life in prison. So life in prison seems like more punishment to me.
But I do not think that Arnold should grant clemency due to the celebrity backing. It will set a very negative precedent in this case.
- prodigalslacker0
68% of californians favor death penalty. arnold wants to keep his support in the party. he won't grant it.
the reaction will be potential riots which will be COMPLETELY unfounded, but such is the american way these days.
- spifflink0
life in prison actually ends up costing less than a scheduled execution, at least from the taxpayers' standpoint.
- kaiyohtee0
I'm not saying he needs cash, but how the movie industry works is by generating publicity for their movies or whatever they are pitching! Especially high profile stuff like this, it's just free publicity for them.
piperboytoy
(Dec 10 05, 12:20)of course he doesn't have an opinion or anything...