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Old 03-01-2008, 09:26 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roachboy
how do you go from the anecdotal (which is all the op provides) to a system-level view of the ways in which the death penalty does or does not function?

if you can't trace the steps. you can't say anything coherent.
I took this not as an objective view of the system but as a personal opinion on the matter. If this thread were meant to be objective, it would have presented a better case. Or, a case, period, I should say.

I didn't see this, so I responded accordingly.
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