Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Manic Monday

Monday, October 22, 2007

Manic Monday

Manic Monday for October 22, 2007

Would you be able to serve on a jury and sentence the defendant to the death penalty if he/she were found guilty of a crime that the court felt warranted the death penalty?
No, I would have a hard time convicting somebody and sentencing to death. Our court system is not perfect and is subject to errors. After you execute them you cannot go back and say; “Ops, we made a mistake. Sorry.”
Here in Connecticut we had a very horrific triple murder of my doctor’s family, they caught that criminals just about red handed and I do not think I could even sentence them to death. I do not believe a life for a life; I believe it is wrong to take a life for any reason.

Have you ever faked being ill to avoid doing something you didn’t want to do?
No, that is a coward’s way out. They have been many times I wish I could avoid doing something but I never did.

Would you state you were guilty of a crime you didn't commit to free a loved one?
No, I believe in personal responsibility. I think I would love that person more if they admitted their crime, unless it was a deliberate violent act. Then I would have to seriously rethink why I love that person if they are capable of doing violence to another person.

3 comments:

Siani10/22/07, 12:55 PM
Great answers - I agree re: #1. I just don't think anyone can claim the moral high ground, if they sentence someone to death. Happy MM!
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Jennifer10/22/07, 11:02 PM
I am with you on number 3 totally.
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Unknown10/28/07, 10:35 AM
I completely see what you mean in #3. I suppose it depends on the severity of the crime, but it would make me question many things.
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers