Tuesday, March 29, 2005

In the noggin

The Times reports today that out West somewhere a court invalidated a death sentence because the jurors had consulted a bible in reaching it, when the judge had clearly instructed them to use their own judgment without outside influences. What if one of them had memorized the Bible, or just cited it? What difference does the presence of the physical book make, when it's the text that matters? How is one supposed to make moral judgments in a vacuum?

The point is that the state's not supposed to be killing people, period.

Though McVeigh was worth frying. I'd say Kozlowski and the whole Enron gang should burn too. Capital punishment for crimes involving large amounts of capital, as I used to say.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, go easy on Coach K. (really a little warfarin would be more appropriate given his rodent-like visage). Any details on Memorial Day weekend?
BTW, paresthesias radiating into the pinkie are more likely to be ulnar neuropathies than carpal tunnel, why don't you ask someone who knows?

Cleric Mikhailovich de Troi said...

Z. I won't really kill K. Then who would we bust on? See next post.

Memorial Day, we're thinking Monday for swim-around, cuz Squash might have to go to his precious "lake house".

And was that Kabat-Zinn guy anybody to you? He looked sorta like Victor.

Cleric Mikhailovich de Troi said...

Z & K. I confess I was a little confused. The technical language did not sound like realtor boy. I didn't realize the moose was in tha house that much. Maybe I've been misreading server names.