Nick Hull wrote:
In article ,
Nancy Rudins wrote:

There is never closure to losing a family member to murder. I've read
of cases in which the family of a murder victim did not want capital
punishment for the murderer. The family of Ted Bundy's victims are
still grieving for their loss. His execution did not bring "closure"
to the loss.

It's fine with me if the victim and her family don't want capital
punishment, as long as I don't have to feed, cloth, shelter and guard
the perp, and as long as the perp can NEVER escape. Those who want to
protect a perp should pay the price. For me, anyone who murders me
should suffer a like fate.

When someone dies, wether by natural or violent means, they never come
back. It really doesn't matter how people die, only what is done to
prevent future occurances. If you cannot get over a person's death you
have problems because everyone dies eventually. You might consider it
unfair when your husband is murdered, I might consider it unfair if my
wife dies in a traffic accident. We both lose, the world goes on. I,m
willing to buy safer cars and fewer murderers.



I might agree if we were all perfect people, the justice system always
made perfect decisions, and decisions were made based solely on justice
rather than human emotions of revenge. Since that's not the case, and
there's way too much room for mistakes and corruption, we can't make
a final decision on someone's life based on the results of an imperfect
justice system run by imperfect humans.

Kind regards,
Nancy

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