Word: murderes
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Retribution for a crime against these families and society as a whole, is the most powerful argument for the death penalty. Murderers deserve to pay for their crime. As the Rev. William Barnwell, an advocate of the abolition of the death penalty, wrote last month in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, "We must never be sentimental about the murder itself or the one who committed it. Like the families of the victims, we must let the full horror of the murder fill our souls...
Nonetheless, if we accept the premise that murder is wrong, it is improper to allow 12 jurors the power to deprive someone of their right to life just as it is improper for one individual to kill another. We do not live in a society that literally believes in "an eye for an eye." For example, if a husband beats his wife, we put him in jail instead of hand-cuffing him and allowing the wife to assault him back. Regardless of how reprehensible a murder may be, a criminal is fundamentally still human...
...Human Life Alliance of the Minnesota Education Fund Inc., sees the question of the legality of abortion in the starkest of terms. It writes, "'the only choice' in abortion is between a dead baby or a live baby." Abortion is deemed an absolute moral wrong because it involves the murder of an unborn child. If this claim is true, if abortion is murder, then it should be illegal under current American law, the brochure states. But for a multiplicity of other reasons, it can be shown that the ethical questions of the abortion procedure are not black and white...
Though we have no complaints about the Alliance for Life's making claims to moral certitude, we do believe theirs a fallacious argument. While the pro-life movement holds that abortion is murder, we believe it is unfair to force this position upon those who do not share this belief...
DETROIT: In a blow to organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit...