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Woodsmoke and fresh cut grass takes me back to a my first battle reenactments, when it was still fresh and we were ignorant enough for the fighting to be satisfying, and then we'd carouse on into the English night, going from campfire to campfire, joking and swapping stories...

Forget cards - if this chap's still alive, I wonder if we could send him some money?

Just a thought: is there an ISO Standard for justice systems?

A convict can languish on death row, it seems, almost indefinitely while the legal system grinds through appeals and pleas for clemency.

This, plus the final, dramatic ritual slaying: lends undeserved glamour to murderers; costs the state (i.e. "us") a fortune; randomly postpones closure for the victim's family; and ultimately gives a murderer a clean, quick death (when rotting in a living hell would be so much more fitting).

For these reasons alone, I would oppose the death penalty in the UK.

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