tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post5900967282503892015..comments2024-03-27T07:18:58.033+00:00Comments on Frances Garrood: Bees in my bonnetFrances Garroodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-18314602238074182402012-07-19T09:11:24.351+01:002012-07-19T09:11:24.351+01:00Exactly how I feel, Rosemary. Thanks for commentin...Exactly how I feel, Rosemary. Thanks for commenting.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-13950828558299417102012-07-17T22:26:20.658+01:002012-07-17T22:26:20.658+01:00It's one of the most inhumane things on the pl...It's one of the most inhumane things on the planet - sounds like a living death. I'm not in favour of Capital punishment, as someone might just be innocent. But if they must deal with the worst offenders in this way, why don't they get it over with at once.Rosemary Gemmellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09311840205603508422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-75284696013591377462012-07-17T17:51:43.496+01:002012-07-17T17:51:43.496+01:00Maggie, I quite agree.Maggie, I quite agree.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-85189906549227224632012-07-17T13:59:04.302+01:002012-07-17T13:59:04.302+01:00This must have been a terrifying experience, and y...This must have been a terrifying experience, and you have my sympathy.I have worked with victims of domestic violence, where similar promises are repeatedly made and broken. Of course people must be punished. The problem with Death Row is that the punishment goes on interminably, and the prisoners are treated like animals while awaiting their ultimate punishment. Some go mad. One man tore out and swallowed his own eye. They have no employment or education. They just wait. And wait...Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-57759281295070052382012-07-17T11:40:29.173+01:002012-07-17T11:40:29.173+01:00Regarding the death penalty, I'm torn. I and m...Regarding the death penalty, I'm torn. I and my family have been the victim of another family member's violent behavior. Each time he got out of prison, his anger played out in violence. In the last few years I have been his target. It's one of the reasons I moved to Mexico. He can't get me here. I remember each time he was in prison, how remorseful he was. But each case, each prisoner is different. And each person has a soul worth saving.Karen Baldwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522178275164058849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-42224204432032720912012-07-17T09:30:10.540+01:002012-07-17T09:30:10.540+01:00Thank you for you thuoghtful reply. I totally agre...Thank you for you thuoghtful reply. I totally agree with what you say. Of course murderers have to be punished, but to be punished for years, with no hope of encoutagement or redemption is at least, a terrible waste of time and money; at worst, barbaric. I believe that many may be innocent, as they cannot afford good legal representation.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-74931599830810871872012-07-17T04:53:14.454+01:002012-07-17T04:53:14.454+01:00The Death Penalty might, and I emphasize might, be...The Death Penalty might, and I emphasize might, be effective were it reserved for the most heinous of crimes, and were it carried out in fairness.<br /><br />As it is, many condemned men have obtained their respective releases due to errant or previously inadmissible evidence, and that's not even counting those those freed by DNA evidence.<br /><br />Our society is hell bent of revenge rather than rehabilitation. Ergo, why they let a man or woman remain on Death Row or so long baffles me. It seems to me that in part it is because languishing in a small cell for countless years is a punishment worse than death.<br /><br />Too, I can understand the victims side as well. But there has to be a better way.Jeremy Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00877532315856151843noreply@blogger.com