The death penalty requires a trial.


"Robert J. Schwarer" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:56:28 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| Because children do not have the mental development needed to make the
| rational choice about the medical and social effects of drug use.
|
|
| I would arrest, try and execute any person who provided recreational
drugs
| to children, whether it was smoked, drunk, or injected. That includes
| alcoholic drinks. Teens can give a drunk a few dollars for beer and get
all
| the alcohol they want. If the penalty was death, the children would not
be
| able to get the drunk to buy them beer or hard liquor for the bottle as
| payment.
| Same thing for the drug pusher selling to children. If you're 18, and
want
| drugs, it should be cheap, the black-market makes drugs expensive and
makes
| the gang violence.
|
| Right now, high drug prices drive crime, from burglary to prostitution
for
| users and turf wars for the sellers.
|
| Public intoxication should result in arrest and time in the "tank" and
OD,
| you die, no extraordinary tax money should be spent to save lives that
were
| unwanted and discarded.
|
|
| "Mxsmanic" wrote in message
| .. .
| | "Jim Macklin" writes:
| |
| | I once told a judge that all drugs should be legal for adults
| | and anyone providing drugs to children should be executed.
| |
| | Why do you make this distinction?
|
| Why bother with a trial? Or an arrest for that matter. Just send out
| the vigilantes.
|
| Bob S.