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Originally Posted by Andrea
Although one such story is sufficient reason to eliminate the death penalty, in my opinion, there seems to be a great number of similar situations in the news in recent years.
Yes, some times it feels as if the criminal has more rights than the victim, but some times it is the 'criminal' that is the victim, and I would want all those rights available to me if I found myself in that situation.
Thank you for posting this, Aj.
Andrea
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Thank you. It always does my heart good when people can put themselves in the situation of someone wrongly accused of a crime and say to themselves, "what rights would I want to have in my favor if I were in that situation". It is even better when folks can then extend that out to encompass actual criminals.
I think that criminals and victims of crimes have the same rights. The difference is that criminals don't *respect* the rights of others.
Cheers
Aj
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