Reply #47: I have no sympathy. [View All]

[gorfle]

If the guy had gotten away with the purse, then captured by the police, tried and found guilty of robbery, would he get the death penalty? It strikes me that the woman was saving her purse, not herself. However I'm sure panic and anger took hold.

If the criminal values his life more than a purse then he should not engage in activities that would put his life at risk for such a low price. Obviously this criminal did not place much value on his life or he would have made a different decision for his course of action.

I dismiss the argument that no one's life is worth a purse. That purse, and everything in it, represents pieces of that woman's life that she exchanged to acquire them. Those pieces are gone, and can never be replaced. Stealing that woman's property is stealing irreplaceable pieces of her life. I would not exchange one minute of my life for some common thug, let alone the countless hours that the property in her purse and the purse probably cost her to acquire.