tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post8623141634154753573..comments2023-10-30T00:44:05.942-07:00Comments on Governing through Crime: Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading: California's Death PenaltyJonathan Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15217567476776700363noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-10247347798129889042010-09-30T15:07:18.150-07:002010-09-30T15:07:18.150-07:00Mr. Simon, I have found your pod casted lectures o...Mr. Simon, I have found your pod casted lectures on line and I am tremendously excited to monitor your lectures from Denver. <br /><br />I find your commmentary on the death penalty quite intriguing and thought-provoking. I have long believed in the DP, and would agree whole-heartedly with your observation that the lengthy delay between sentencing and execution, during which the person then becomes a long term prisoner. <br /><br />I have little sympathy for most of those incarcerated. I don't believe in the 'prison rehabilitation' concept. I believe prison is meant for punishment and should be such. <br /><br />I do, however, agree with you that we should not punish twice through imprisoning AND executing prisoners. If we are going to uphold the DP concept, then we should perform this swiftly. If we are going to imprison, then I'm a Joe Arpao fan.Your Mother, Only Honesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105351169221679133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-69917934507979717222010-09-29T14:13:09.629-07:002010-09-29T14:13:09.629-07:00Seriously? While I understand & don't agre...Seriously? While I understand & don't agree with your general line of thinking regarding the death penalty, I find some of what you say abhorrent beyond comprehension. Inhumane & degrading? What about the inhumane and degrading death of poor 15 year old Susan Jordan & the other young girls he raped? I also have a hard time seriously believing that you genuinely think that the fact he has not committed a serious crime in the last 30 years (while on death row in a cell 23 hours a day) should be a mitigating factor to spare his life. This is a bad man who has raped young girls multiple times and killed one; it makes me sick to that you have way more sympathy for Albert Brown & the treatment he received than for his victim & her family (who have stated they wish the execution to proceed.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12101054952482931418noreply@blogger.com