Comments on: Summum jus, summa injuria. http://paulbogan.com/2008/07/26/summum-jus-summa-injuria/ The best of everything... just a little bit late. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:41:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: paul http://paulbogan.com/2008/07/26/summum-jus-summa-injuria/#comment-18558 paul Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:01:46 +0000 http://paulbogan.com/2008/07/26/summum-jus-summa-injuria/#comment-18558 That's fine, Roy. Not for nothing did I name it "A Slight Delay." :) I'm curious: you say you would vote for the re-introduction of the death penalty, but that you wouldn't vote to impose it if you were serving on a jury. Why vote for a law about which you're conflicted, and that (from the sound of it) you'd prefer not to see carried out? I can understand supporting the death penalty (although I don't agree with it) and I can also understand why one would refuse to impose it, but these strike me as a dichotomy, an either/or rather than a both/and. Could you shed some light on your thinking? That’s fine, Roy. Not for nothing did I name it “A Slight Delay.” :)

I’m curious: you say you would vote for the re-introduction of the death penalty, but that you wouldn’t vote to impose it if you were serving on a jury. Why vote for a law about which you’re conflicted, and that (from the sound of it) you’d prefer not to see carried out? I can understand supporting the death penalty (although I don’t agree with it) and I can also understand why one would refuse to impose it, but these strike me as a dichotomy, an either/or rather than a both/and. Could you shed some light on your thinking?

]]> By: Roy http://paulbogan.com/2008/07/26/summum-jus-summa-injuria/#comment-18504 Roy Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:20:55 +0000 http://paulbogan.com/2008/07/26/summum-jus-summa-injuria/#comment-18504 I'm sorry I'm 18 months late to this discussion, but you state that the Capital Punishment debate is only about the death penalty on the surface. How right you are. If it came to a free vote here in the UK, I would vote for the re-introduction of the death penalty. Absolute fact. If I was sat on a jury where I knew that the accused could be put to death because of my vote, I could never return a verdict that could take some-one else's life. Fact again. Logically, then, the death penalty is no good, because for a deterrent to deter you must be prepared to use it. If 1 person out of 60 million that live in this country aren't prepared to use it, then universal justice cannot be served. I’m sorry I’m 18 months late to this discussion, but you state that the Capital Punishment debate is only about the death penalty on the surface. How right you are.
If it came to a free vote here in the UK, I would vote for the re-introduction of the death penalty. Absolute fact.
If I was sat on a jury where I knew that the accused could be put to death because of my vote, I could never return a verdict that could take some-one else’s life. Fact again.
Logically, then, the death penalty is no good, because for a deterrent to deter you must be prepared to use it. If 1 person out of 60 million that live in this country aren’t prepared to use it, then universal justice cannot be served.

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