On 24/09/2011 8:39 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 9/23/2011 5:30 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty ready to lock them up after the first one. I'm more on the
>> fence when it comes to an absolute certainty they will never do it
>> again. To me it's the price. It costs more to execute someone than to
>> keep them locked up for life. And the chance of escape.
>
> I picked your post as a victim but I just wanted to say that while I'm
> not a proponent of the death penalty, I think it might have come about
> to give the family of the victim closure. I could be wrong. Often am.

You may not think that i you knew the sorts of crimes for which the
death penalty was applied......theft, treason, cutting down trees,
killing chickens. In 18th century Britain, there were 222 crimes to
which death penalty could be applied. The US, having started off as
British colonies, has similar laws. In Virginia the Divine Moral and
Martial Laws provide death penalty for things like stealing grapes and
trading with Indians. In New York Duke's Laws the death penatly could
be applied to a person who struck their mother or father, and for
denying the "true God"