"Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
news:atropos-952E21.09374318072008@news.giganews.com...
> In article <dpadneWZscpYDR3VnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@comcast.com>,
> "Newk Indofman" <newk.indofman@lovesyou.org> wrote:
>
>> "Vandar" <vandar69@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:AcVfk.104856$c5.59287@fe101.usenetserver.com...
>> > Newk Indofman wrote:
>> >> "Vandar" <vandar69@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:LERfk.2428$Jz4.26@fe085.usenetserver.com...
>> >>
>> >>>Thanatos wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>In article <emRfk.2426$Jz4.1878@fe085.usenetserver.com>,
>> >>>> Vandar <vandar69@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>Thanatos wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>In article <g5nnrj0tcg@news5.newsguy.com>,
>> >>>>>>"Sanna" <sanna_onaneedtoknowbasisonly@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>Vandar wrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>OJ not being convicted doesn't mean Susan Atkins should be set
>> >>>>>>>>free.
>> >>>>>>>>She was convicted of participating in eight murders and
>> >>>>>>>>originally
>> >>>>>>>>sentenced to death. At no point should she ever see the world
>> >>>>>>>>outside of a prison cell. To hell with her. I hope she's in pain.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>She bragged about killing Tate and her baby and even admitted that
>> >>>>>>>she kept stabbing her because she was sick and tired of hearing
>> >>>>>>>her
>> >>>>>>>begging and pleading for her life and the life of her baby. In
>> >>>>>>>the
>> >>>>>>>40 years since the murders she has *yet* to show any remorse. I
>> >>>>>>>don't know how anyone could even consider giving her a
>> >>>>>>>compassionate
>> >>>>>>>release. Being alive in prison is a helluva lot more comfortable
>> >>>>>>>than where she's going.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>The only way I'd consider it is if it was clear she wasn't going to
>> >>>>>>get any taxpayer-funded medical assistance on the outside. As it
>> >>>>>>is,
>> >>>>>>we're footing the bill for her better-than-average medical care
>> >>>>>>inside
>> >>>>>>the prison.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>Let her out and let her rot in a pool of her own filth.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>She isn't in a prison hospital. She's in a hospital "near the
>> >>>>>prison".
>> >>>>>To date, it has cost taxpayers $1.5 million for her medical care and
>> >>>>>another $300k for the guards outside her door since she was sent
>> >>>>>there
>> >>>>>in March.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>My point exactly.
>> >>>
>> >>>Yup. As far as I'm concerned, they should pull the tubes, cancel the
>> >>>medication, tell the guards to go home, and toss her in the dumpster
>> >>>out
>> >>>back. Check on her every couple of hours to see if she's still alive,
>> >>>and
>> >>>when she's dead, call the sanitation company to come empty the
>> >>>dumpster.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> That would make their actions no better than hers, right?
>> >
>> > She would have a natural death, unlike the people she killed.
>>
>> Intentionally tossing a gravely sick person in a dumpster to hasten her
>> death is intentional, at least for civilized people who claim to have a
>> moral code.
>
> So leave out the dumpster. There's no reason the public coffers should
> be drained to string along the vegetative remains of some unrepentant
> psychopath.
The prinicples of the US justice system are supposed to involve *humane*
treatment of criminals, because allegedly, we are a *humane* people. If the
*cruel and unusual* is what you would prefer, perhaps you should go live
under the rule of the Taliban, where you'll feel more at home.
> If she or her family can afford their own care, great. If
> not, well those are the consequences of deciding to gleefully gut a
> pregnant woman.
