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#1 White Supremacist to be Executed In Texas for 1998 killing
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09-21-2011, 04:19 PM
A white supremacist who was sentenced to death for the murder of a black man in an horrific killing that echoed the atrocities of the lynching era is to be executed today.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6pm for his part in the 1998 killing of James Byrd, Jr in East Texas......Brewer was one of three men convicted of killing Byrd after they offered him a lift along a remote country road.
Byrd, 49, was beaten unconscious and urinated upon before being bound to the vehicle by his ankles with a heavy logging chain and driven for three miles.......Forensic evidence showed that he was alive for much of the ordeal but was killed when the vehicle hit a concrete drainage channel causing his head and arm to be ripped from his body.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-killing.html
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09-21-2011, 04:34 PM
Not much complaint over this guy's execution is there?
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09-21-2011, 04:39 PM
If they are absolutely certain he guilty, he should be in prison for a very long time. He should also be treated humanely in prison. I don't think the state should kill him.
Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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09-21-2011, 05:43 PM
--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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09-21-2011, 06:02 PM
Torture is never acceptable. Sometimes it is necessary to kill another human being, but torture degrades their very humanity.
Punishing people can be done by stripping them of their freedoms, their property, and most of their civil rights. However, kiilling people should be done only when necessary (like police shooting an armed gunman, or soldiers killing enemy combatants in a warzone). It is never necessary to kill a man in a cage, that is about revenge, and it's sick.
As for torture, that's even worse, torture violates humanity itself, torture is obscene. Torture is always wrong. Period.Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
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