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I've never favored the death penalty as it is currently practiced. I think it should be extremely rare. Tim McVeigh would get the penalty. Scott King would not. In cases which involve a tremendous loss of life and an anti-social hatred of society, I would favor the death penalty.
Karla Faye's jealous rage killing? No. Tookie? Yes. Just based on his founding of the Crips alone, he started a genocidal army over half a million strong that has exacted a tremendous loss of life and has practiced an anti-social hatred of society.
As he "reformed", he still maintained that he never murdered those four people. I strongly suspect that in reality, those are the only four cases that were tried. I would bet there are probably several dozen that we never heard about.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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