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Ail</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The following is in response to the published letter by ----------------on April 9:</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Editor:</B></div> <div> <B>     I respectfully submit that the writer is apparently one of those who put forth a great hue and cry to end capital punishment invoking all sorts of emotional arguments and resorting to the use of questionable statistics to bulwark their position.</B></div> <div> <B>     The writer calls capital punishment a violation of the Constitution based on its statement in the Eighth Amendment on "cruel and unusual punishment". </B></div> <div> <B>     One has to know what was in the minds of the original writers to ascertain what this meant to them as well as the situation out of which they wrote. The fact that capital punishment has existed from that day to this argues against the writers position that this punishment was either in their minds or those that followed. </B></div> <div> <B>     The argument that capital punishment is not a deterrent and that imprisonment is designed not for punishment but rehabilitation is at best a debatable question.</B></div> <div> <B>     For anything to be a deterrent punishment must be applied as the Constitution says "speedily, confronted by witnesses against him and with an impartial jury." </B></div> <div> <B>     Trials are anything but speedy and when convicted only a tiny fraction of the thousands guilty of murder are ever executed. Most are given less than life sentences and are eventually paroled. </B></div> <div> <B>     The odds, therefore, of being small and consequently not too much of a deterrent.</B></div> <div> <B>     Beyond this there are all sorts of loopholes that allow murders to escape not only death but even imprisonment.</B></div> <div> <B>     The statistics used to address the economic aspects are, like all statistics, open to question and depend upon who puts them out and why.  It is difficult to believe that one execution costs $2 million.  It is easier to believe that it costs at least $600,000 to keep a prisoner for 40 years.  </B></div> <div> <B>     Over and above all of this, I would like to know the position of these individuals on abortion.  The already conceived and unborn infant has committed no crime, has perpetrated no evil, is no threat to human beings, except the mother in rare cases and certainly cannot be judged guilty of a crime for which death is decreed.</B></div> <div> <B>     In the light of one and a half million babies assigned to death yearly the number on death row awaiting execution, often for horrendous crimes, becomes minuscule by comparison.</B></div> <div> <B>     On the day when those who seek to end capital punishment join forces with those who seek to save babies from abortion we shall be on more common ground. Until then my vote goes to the babies.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Verdana" ><B>Back to- </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFFFF" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><A HREF="government.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Offensive Words about the Government"><U><B>Offensive Words about the Government</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>