Lilred's Rant of the Week-The Justice System

[fabsroman]

Regarding Jessica Lundsford, I don't know if this scum bag confessed on a lie detector, but before we condemn him to death I would like to see all the facts. Executing people just because they confess to a muder isn't always the right thing. What if a father confesses to a murder performed by a son because the father wants to protect the son. Just an extreme example to make you guys think. This is a little more extreme than the other example I gave of a guy bragging to his girlfriend about killing a guy just to impress her. He has been locked up for some time now.

Now, let's not get me wrong here. I completely believe in the death penalty in certain circumstances, but I would want to be damn sure of the facts before I pulled the trigger.

Rubicon,

Since you live in Maryland, I can recommend that you get an Advance Health Care Directive drafted up in lieu of a Living Will. It allows you to express your wishes in more detail. The Terri Schiavo case has got a lot of people thinking about death planning and I have been getting some requests from my clients regarding it. We take a lot of things for granted when everything is going well (e.g., retirement, health insurance, estate planning, life planning).


Tooldummy,

They inserted the feeding tube in the first place because they didn't know what her wishes were. It was only after the court case that her wishes were known. If she had her wishes written down on a document, then there wouldn't have been any problem.