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View Poll Results: What would you do with these may-be monsters?
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Death with no fair trial 1 votes (9.09%)
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Nov 4, 2006, 01:32 PM
 
Judge sets date for Libya HIV verdict - CNN.com

Five Bulgarian nurses and 1 Palestinian doctor, on the defendants chair for allegedly infecting purposely 426 Lybian children with HIV.

What's should happen to this medical staff, if you were the judge?
     
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Nov 4, 2006, 01:47 PM
 
They should have been released years ago. It's a show trial.
     
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Nov 4, 2006, 02:00 PM
 
They were tortured for their confessions?

Where's the 'new trial' option?
     
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Nov 4, 2006, 02:15 PM
 
This is a poor test of Capital punishment. There is no details of the evidence against the medics.

If you go to any country you must accept the risk of their judicial system. I'm not going to loose any sleep over them, even if they are inoccent. If you go to a musslem country, then you risk your life with their rules. I believe they are inoccent.
     
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Nov 4, 2006, 02:20 PM
 
4) [_] Let them work in North Korea and Iran
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Nov 4, 2006, 02:38 PM
 
Originally Posted by Nicko View Post
They should have been released years ago. It's a show trial.
Quoted for emphasis. This 'trial' is an absolute disgrace.
     
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Nov 4, 2006, 02:55 PM
 
I consider myself lucky to be not in the position to make a decission of that kind. I realise that there are people who have to be in that position, since justice could not work without judges. But I am still glad not to be the one.
     
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Dec 20, 2006, 03:05 AM
 
The death penalties have been confirmed. What a farce.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Libya firm on HIV death sentences
     
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Dec 20, 2006, 04:46 AM
 
Another vote for "it's a farce".
     
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Dec 20, 2006, 05:33 AM
 
This is not even a test for your stance on the death penalty … nor should it be a test for your stance on mock trials. The evidence overwhelmingly suggests the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor are innocent. I don't think supporters of the death penalty don't want innocent people to die either …

My guess is that the West will eventually pay a fair amount for having their sentences reverted.
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Dec 21, 2006, 07:37 AM
 
There's one and only one argument against the death penalty: The justice system is imperfect, therefore the lies the possibility of sentencing an innocent person to death. Oh wait, it has already happened and many innocent people have been released from death row. Once we kill a wrongly convicted person, it makes murderers out of all of us.
     
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Dec 21, 2006, 12:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by macintologist View Post
There's one and only one argument against the death penalty: The justice system is imperfect, therefore the lies the possibility of sentencing an innocent person to death.
This is the only argument against death penalty you can find???
     
   
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