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From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Turning the Other Cheek
Message-ID: <1030@utcs.uucp>
Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 12:11:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 12:11:45 1985
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Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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>Why weren't the killers sentenced to life imprisonment or death (if Canada
>has capital punishment for murder one)?  I found the light sentences they
>received shocking; they weren't all legally juveniles, were they?  Are they
>eventually eligible for parole, as well?
>
...
>
>I'd like to believe I can support worthy causes like death penalty abolition,
>but frankly I think I'd relish the chance to be a member of a firing squad
>that would blow these "kids" out of this world.
>
>
>						Ron Rizzo

Sentencing in Canada is very inconsistent.  There is very little in the way
of standards or precedents for sentencing.  Though people like this would never
get acquitted unless they were cops, people like this all get very varied
sentences.

I think the best conclusion is that the judge was not gay.  :-)

Canada does not have a death penalty except for killing a cop.  (Sounds like a
weird case to pick as 'worse', but of course I can see why it's done...)
I find abolition of death penalty a difficult question ONLY UNTIL I realize
that the people who would get officially killed if there was a death penalty
will not be queerbashers, but people like me.  Think about it.

Alan J Rosenthal
{ihnp4|allegra|linus|decvax}!utzoo!utcs!flaps, cbosgd!utcs!flaps

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