Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
Cheers for that Roxan. .suppose I am always concerned in a case where there is a potential for a death penalty to err on the side of caution so I'd not be happy to go for 1st degree just in case it was wrong. .
plus it makes me go a bit shivery looking at the defendant knowing they could be put to death at some point but are flesh and blood and alive and kicking now. slappable face or not..
.I watched a Louis Theroux interview with a woman on Death Row who had admitted all her crimes and found it horrid to watch . .partly cos I knew she was already dead but also cos as she was talking she knew the exact time she was going to die. . then seeing Louis outside at one minute past 12 saying it's confirmed time of death etc.. then interviewing the creeps that wanted to watch her die too asking what it was like and what happened.... and yes they were some that were family of her victims *but to me that made them no better than her*...
I think in anger and at a moment in time when something dreadful has just happened we could all be killers... but more out of passion and a heat of the moment thing but, to then kill later after the initial shock and anger has died down so clinically and in cold blood just makes me shudder at the thought
anyways thanks for listening to my ramblings and giving me something to follow daily..
"*but to me, made them no better than her*" yip, i feel the same, and mentioned that once. Totally agree all in bold.