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Ziggysmom

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1. This is a good example of why the death penalty must be abolished!

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Sat Oct 29, 2022, 07:09 AM

Oct 2022

"The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?"
ROGER EBERT

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This is a good example of why the death penalty must be abolished! Ziggysmom Oct 2022 #1

Exactly ck4829 Oct 2022 #2