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Barry Jones Reprieve speech

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
1 decade 2 years 7 months 4 weeks ago

Politics

The death penalty always gets a lot of discussion in the comments, but I haven't seen a lot of videos on the subject. This talk is from Barry Jones, one of the men instrumental in the abolition of the death penalty in Australia. The "recent book" he quotes from is his autobiography, A Thinking Reed, where he goes into a great deal more detail about the argument against the death penalty, but I thought it was interesting which points he brought up as the most important ones in a short speech. Here's a link to part two, where he talks a little about the U.S.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Boise_Lib.

My favoritest Australian ever. I just want to hug him (and hope to absorb some of his perspicacity).

The key here is when he mentions (in a quote) execution and torture in the same sentence. Both are simple acts of revenge. One day, the death penalty will be viewed with the same bewilderment we now reserve for torture.

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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