Death Penalty

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I am always slightly puzzled when someone who kills themself in their cell (or dies of natural causes in remand) is said to have cheated justice. Or that the families of victims have been denied justice.

Does justice mean revenge?

In America?


Yes.

eta: we WERE founded by those nutty Puritans. I have a book that says something about the Calvinistic attitudes of Puritans and their lust for beaver and mink skins and the rise of capitalism and how they only cared, really, deep down in their secret evil hearts, for profit. Not god, not justice, but profit. And revenge.

They stole the Indian's winter cache of corn, you know. They weren't exactly wonderful people.

It's all due to that lineage that we're all fooked up.