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Ken Richey to Be Freed After 20 Years on Ohio's Death Row | 15 comments (15 topical)

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Justice isn't just blind--it's deaf too. (none / 0) (#3)
by agincour on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 05:55:13 AM EST
Buddhism's first principle is that "Life is suffering."  So true, and yet how much more suffering some of us have to endure than others.  

I can't imagine what it must be like to be selected as a perpetrator and then be subjected to the grinding wheels of justice, especially when those wheels can be set in motion by hunches, political necessities, and just plain, power motivated face-saving.  Perhaps, and to be more honest, we should add "suffering" to the penal philosophy of retribution, specific deterrence, general deterrence, prevention, and rehabilitation.  

Nothing can give this man back what they so grandly and with relish took away.  

Ken Richey to Be Freed After 20 Years on Ohio's Death Row | 15 comments (15 topical)

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