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'Mike'[_4_] · 26-04-2014, 08:25 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Let It Be" wrote in message ...

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:54:16 +0100, "Let It Be"
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David Hill wrote:
On R.4 this morning they were talking about the trouble they are
having in the US of A obtaining drugs to use when they carry out the
death penalty, and they were talking to an advocate for one person
awaiting the death sentence.
He said that they have given up trying to get the sentence repealed,
but he is worried that "some of the drug combinations they might use
could be harmful" I thought that was the purpose of them.
David

Ah, but the condemned might die in agony if the are given the wrong
drugs - and that will never do will it?

One of the drugs is an anaesthetic so there is no pain. It's still a
barbaric practice regardless of the crime.

And the robbing, assaulting and killing of innocent victims is less
barbaric?

I would suggest that you have a very long and hard look at your table of
priorities!

Now just to placate you, I do not believe in capital punishment in any
form - it is a far to easy release for those convicted of crimes that would
invoke that sentence. Far better to lock them up in a black hole, throw away
the key to its door and feed the convicted prisoner on the left-over slops
from the prison's pig-farm (if it has one) and dirty water.

If that also offends you, then put them out to work for eighteen hours a day
on hard labour - and then return them to the black hole AND still feed and
water them as above!
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Couldn't agree more. Prison is NOT a deterrent and is much too soft. I spent
two years in Camp Hill Prison here on the Isle of Wight teaching. I got on
fine with the prisoners and the prison staff, it was the Home Office and
their rules and regulations on me! But it is the following little story
which shows just what is in the mind of those inside and their attitude.

Camp Hill was a Category 'C' prison, adults with minor crimes. One on my
course was in for taking away cars, he just loved driving, often returning
the car from where he got it, but he said one day "Do you know Mr Crowe the
government are wasting money putting me in here. It would be much cheaper
for them to buy me a car so I can get my pleasure". I gave him a polite
lecture on 'working for one'.

I feel that prison should be a deterrent. Hard work and a warning that if
they offend again the sentence will be twice as long. 2 Years will be 4. 4
Years will be 8. 8 Years will be 16. etc. I put this to the car driving
prisoner and asked him 'If you knew that your next sentence would be twice
as long, would you think twice before you put your hand on the door handle?'
A very prompt "YES". Whether it would stop him who knows, but it would make
him think about his crime. Just done 4 years and the possibility of
8?????????

Mike

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