Revenge and Justice

This comes from episode one of the Body Farm.

It seems appropriate to this forum since I think it sums up the mindset of some of the people here.

People confuse justice with revenge, but there is no revenge in justice.
And when justice comes, it doesn't always come the way we want it to.
And after the anger and the pain, somewhere in the future, if we're lucky, comes the healing.

I should add that quote was probably the best part of the whole show.

Death for Duncan

CNN reports on the sentencing to death of Joseph Edward Duncan III.

I wrote about this before, expressing my sincere condolences to the family of the victims.

Duncan showed no reaction other than smiling as the verdict was passed to the judge.

He took Dylan and the boy's then-8-year-old sister, Shasta, to a remote western Montana campsite where he raped, tortured and threatened them before shooting Dylan in the head and burning his body. Jurors viewed horrifying video Duncan made of him sexually abusing, torturing and hanging Dylan until the boy lost consciousness.


I guess everybody is so outraged at what he did that open-minded discussion about capital punishment is out of the question. I can only repeat what I said before: what I can't accept is the government doing it and dressing it up as something justified and wholesome and legal.