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What Have I Become???
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What Have I Become??? Recently, I haven't been feeling myself and I'm not sure what's happening. Putting it into words has been a challenge, so I'll share two events that illustrate why I'm so out of sorts. First, I was in Richmond last week, to deal with a few things and one of those found me in circuit court. It was not a criminal matter and I wasn't the defendant. Since there are apparently not many civil cases at any one time, mine got lumped in with what I discovered was drug court. I'd briefly researched the judge I'd be in front of and discovered he ran his own program for substance abusers. My case was placed behind the various drug cases, which afforded me the opportunity to observe this judge and his interaction with those in front of him. To say I was astonished by his behavior would be an understatement. He treated each defendant with kindness and respect. It was clear he had read every bit of the case files in front of him. When rendering his decision, this man showed more concern for a positive outcome for these people than he did about 'carrying out justice'. When considering those who've broken the law, my position has always been 'try 'em and fry 'em' but something about the humanity I saw demonstrated in that courtroom struck home with me. I walked out of that courthouse thinking the world needs more of what I'd just witnessed. The second event occurred just yesterday, when a colleague and I were discussing an execution gone wrong in I think Arkansas, not that it matters. Again, my position has always been to take the bastards out and shoot 'em. But yesterday's conversation made me think about the topic in a different way. Rather than focus on the condemned, what about those who physically carry out the sentence? The guy who administers the lethal injection, or pulls the switch on 'Old Sparky'? What a terrible burden to carry around; I just took the life of another human. No one escapes the trauma associated with such an act. In the past, PA used firing squads to execute prisoners. In order to prevent such trauma, all but one of the guards had blanks loaded in his gun, and the weapons weren't handed out until right before the event. Let me tell you, when you're firing blanks, it's a completely different feeling than when discharging live ammo, so there's no way the man who fired the rounds that killed the prisoner didn't know he was that guy. And let's be honest with ourselves, the death penalty isn't a deterrent in the least. At the end of the brief conversation, I'd reached the conclusion that the death penalty should be removed as punishment. Not because some nasty scumbags don't deserve a slow, painful death, but to preserve the humanity of those tasked with carrying out the order. So, what's happening to me? Has my brain been scrambled somehow? Oh shit! I'm becoming a LIBERAL!!! |
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Ouch...
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I don't know what is changing in your life but its sounds like it is all for the good. No one has the right to take the life of another person no matter what the charge is. I often wonder how those people that do the executions feel after they have done the deed. I will bet they don't feel very good about it,,its not just a job,,its murder as far as I am concerned. I wonder what the stats are on people that get paid to do that. Do they end up being mentally disturbed,, is the suicide rate high in that profession. I am glad that you are starting to change your views,, 
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I'm generally in favor of the death penalty BUT, not with they way our legal (not justice) system is currently run. Far too many have been put on death row who have decades later been proven to be innocent. That was done because of the egos and lack of transparency and checks and balances within the system. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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There's an injection for that  When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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im not exactly sure, but keep working at it.
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