This thoughtful gentleman (
) has been quoted widely above(smile) but here a few other gems from JosephDPhillips. I know you'd think he was a kid let loose in the junior high computer room from his posts; but he's not! He's actually 46 - waaaaaay old enough to know better) and from Whitfield CA - about the only thing you can respect about this guy is unlike 98 percent of the posters on that board; he uses his real name and location! For real! Saw it in the phone book
Joseph is NOT the family member of a murder victim; it looks like he just likes their board cause its a place where you can spout hate and gore - as long as its directed at the 'right' targets...
Here are some of his words of wisdom (oh - you need to know that 'scumpals' is what he calls people who are kind enough and compassionate enough to correspond with death row prisoners. .....
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There's no reforming murderer-fellating scumpals, folks. They just looooove vicious killers.
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responding to someone who said "ast night the state of CT committed a murder...they should be held accountable for their inhumane, vengeful actions."
josephd said :
Good luck, murdererphile!
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On sympathy for the family of the convicted:
I Do the family members of executees deserve sympathy? Should we get them flowers and greeting cards? Should we wrap the cards in plastic first, in case we bust out crying?
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I was comparing the number of murderers saved by antis last night (zero) to the number of murderers returned to a state of grace via a small libation of pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride (two, within 24 hours)
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The purpose of capital punishment isn't to lower the murder rate.
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I'd be in the witness room, right in front, so the murderer could see me, wearing a Grim Reaper costume, if they'd let me.
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You condone murder by associating with murderers. What murderers deserve is determined by the non-murdering citizens of the state that sentenced it -- the murderer -- to death.
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The burning of witches was wrong only because they weren't really witches. American cast murderers out, as well. The way we do it now is via lethal injection, although burning them alive would suit me fine.
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The difference is too small to be important to the public, which looks the other way when a DR inmate takes its own, undeserved life or is otherwise liberated from the mortal coil with the tacit help of correctional officers or genpop prisoners. Solitary confinement is still mere incarceration.
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There is no prison secure enough to keep a murderer from killing again. That is besides the point anyway. Since no rehabilitation after murder is possible, and since previous attempts at deterrence have failed, the only logical, instinctive and rational response to an act of murder is to remove the murderer from the biosphere altogether.
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Murderers are far lower on the moral scale than animals. These are condemned murderers. If you are really worried about the mental state of a condemned murderer, put it into a coma until the date of its expungement.
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They have a funny way of showing remorse, by continuing to breathe.
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In my home town of San Luis Obispo, a 13 year old is currently on trial for murder. He broke into an old man's mobile home and bashed the man's skull in repeatedly with a skateboard, bragging to his accomplice later how "cool" it was. He isn't eligible for the death penalty, unfortunately. I am hoping new supreme court justices will overturn this unconscionable ruling within my lifetime.
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I apologize. I should have said capital punishment is the simple solution to the simple problem of murderers' persistent breathing.
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