Sorry, but I Couldn't Have Sent This Man to Prison. Could You? [Eire Region]
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AMAN highly placed in our justice system recently confided in me that, whenever he encounters a citizen of a country which retains the death penalty, he finds this knowledge subtly colouring their subsequent relationship. The idea of someone choosing to reside in a jurisdiction reserving the final remedy of execution is something he cannot regard as an abstraction, but as a significant element of the personality of that person.
I know what he means. Although we may not like to think of it, we are all, in an individual sense, answerable for the conduct of our legal systems and the laws that govern them. Even if I dissent from the system, its laws or the manner of their implementation, I cannot escape the idea that what is done is done on my behalf as much as anyone else's.See the full content of this document
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Sorry, but I Couldn't Have Sent This Man to Prison. Could You? [Eire Region]
And this is why I wish to to say that, although I know there is a degree to which as a citizen I am 'responsible' for the incarceration of Frank Dunlop, I do not agree with it. It was, in a sense, imposed on my behalf, but I am not happy about this.
Even less do I agree with the vindictiveness that attended his sending down for 18 months on a charge of corruption. There was someth...See the full content of this document
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