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From: akhanna@bbncc5.UUCP (Atul Khanna)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Public hanging in India.
Message-ID: <469@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 14:40:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 14:40:15 1985
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In article <141700063@uiucdcsb> swami@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
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>Isn't capital punishment always in public in all countries?

Not in the US.

>I think it is questionable whether it is more merciful to sentence a person
>to 99 years imprisonment than to kill them. 

Well, the former is reversible, which, in my mind, makes it infinitely
more merciful than the latter.



-- 
Atul C Khanna
BBN Communications Corporation, Cambridge MA