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Louise Guinness's avatar

Wholly with you on this, Julie. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Do you know the passage in the Idiot where Dostoevsky explains why the death penalty is more cruel than other killings? His view was shaped by having faced a firing squad

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Karen Moe's avatar

Hi Julie Thanks for your article as always. I have a question though:

What do you think about serial killers like Clifford Olson in Canada who murdered 11 children between the ages of 11 and 18 and was in prison from 1982 until he died in 2011. It costs approximately $115, 000 per day for each prisoner, which of course is paid by the tax payer. There is an extreme shortage of money for rape relief centres and, if we actually started to offer exiting programs in Canada for prostituted people, some of that money could be used for that. What do you think about if there is absolutely no doubt (re: the serial killer killed at least 2 people) and they show no remorse, as with the case of Olson? Then of course there is also Robert Pickton, Investigators ultimately found the remains or DNA of 33 woman at Pickton's pig farm. He was convicted of murdering six women, and charged in the deaths of 20 more ... all of these women were impoverished, drug addicted, prostituted women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

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