>>>"Thanatos" <atro...@mac.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>>news:atropos-952E21.09374318072008@news.giganews.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>In article <dpadneWZscpYDR3VnZ2dnUVZ_vedn...@comcast.com>,
>>>>"Newk Indofman" <newk.indof...@lovesyou.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>"Vandar" <vanda...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:AcVfk.104856$c5.59287@fe101.usenetserver.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>Newk Indofman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"Vandar" <vanda...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>news:LERfk.2428$Jz4.26@fe085.usenetserver.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>>>>In article <emRfk.2426$Jz4.1...@fe085.usenetserver.com>,
>>>>>>>>>Vandar <vanda...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Thanatos wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>In article <g5nnrj0...@news5.newsguy.com>,
>>>>>>>>>>>"Sanna" <sanna_onaneedtoknowbasiso...@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.
