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Death Penalty

Random thought of the minute. Last night I was at Clark's (a bar in downtown Syracuse) with Leah and Amos, and we got on the topic of the death penalty. Leah supports the death penalty and I don't. I thought about it a little while ago, and decided that I would support it if and only if there was a requirement. The governor of the state doing the death penalty has to sit down and talk with the person for a minimum amount of time (say somewhere between 20 minutes and and an hour). The prisoner should be given access to all court documents from his case and access to a lawyer at least one month prior to the meeting, and there should be a lawyer present (the same that the prisoner consulted with, assuming he consulted a lawyer) at the meeting with all of the evidence from the trial. After the meeting, if the governor decides that the death penalty is the right thing to do, it can proceed.

Some day, if I become the benevolent dictator of the world...