well what's your opinion on capital punishment
well uh
i uh i agree with it as long as uh
as long as there's no
no shadow of a doubt of guilt
right i agree with that too i uh this this is probably going to be not a big debate or anything uh
uh
i am for capital cu punishment only for murder i mean you know i think they asked in the recording uh what in in what crimes but only
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if someone has murdered someone you know that's about the only thing but uh how is Georgia for uh capital punishment are they executing people or
uh yeah yeah um
not very often but they they do send some
every now and then you know as
what
well needless to say Texas is uh probably the leader
uh i we may have started you know capital punishment back up again and uh i think we've probably executed more people than any other state
yeah
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um-hum
but uh
a case out in California what was it a week or so ago was rather interesting in how that uh they prolonged the guy that was supposed to be executed
yeah
and i just i can't see any real value in just letting these people live out their sentences
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yeah it seems a little bit ridiculous because of
just the tax dollar it takes to
maintain somebody that's hopelessly
you know just uh violent
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and uh it's doesn't make much sense
how do you feel about insanity pleas
i uh
i i don't think it's much of a
a
reason for
um
i i don't think it's much of a
reason to get somebody off a off the hook i mean
like uh Jeffrey Dahlmer i i don't know i haven't
followed that since you know it was on the news but
uh you know i've i've heard that there might be some insanity there i don't you know i'm i'm not
at all up to date on that but you know if uh something like that if it if you can
get off on sanity insanity on something like that which i i believe you know there's a certain degree of insanity there but that's certainly not
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i don't i don't believe it's uh
an excuse by any means you know
well i had heard of a case out in California of someone who had murdered his parents or some sort of thing and they put him away uh
in an insane asylum you know because he pleaded insanity and after he was in maybe twelve years or so they let him out he went out and he killed five more people
yeah yeah i just don't
so
i don't think that's uh
an excuse at all
well i guess it's sounds rather heartless but i guess if they're that bad if they're that badly off mentally then perhaps it's just as well to to end their life
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yeah yeah
aren't we cruel people
oh i don't i don't think so i mean i just you know
if i i think in Japan you know when crime gets bad they you know they take a few criminals out in the public square and they execute them and crime goes down you you you know
uh so there's i think it i think it works since most people don't believe in being forced you know
well i say they may say it's not a deterrent and perhaps it isn't but i guess
i just feel if nothing else it's justice i know that if someone murdered a member of my family i'd want justice done and i'd want to see them punished for their crime
yeah
yeah yeah i i agree
so
i agree
uh perhaps the people in the Middle East have kind of a good idea you know if you steal something they cut off your hand and and the punishment fits the crime
yeah yeah
uh-huh
but uh
yeah
yeah i think that's uh
not a bad idea of course there there'd be a lot of people that couldn't uh couldn't function for awhile you know until they got it through their heads that you know that was going to be enforced
well this is very true
you'd have to phase that one in slowly or i think or you would have
use someone as an example and see how it worked
a bunch of
yeah
but then you got to pick who it's going to be
well i i was a little concerned i was going to get someone on the phone that was totally against capital punishment and
in any conversation that i've had through this TI thing you know i've never met anybody that i got into a screaming argument with or even really disagreed with heavily but i thought this could be one you know it could be a very
yeah
yeah
yeah
