Rowark didn't do Carl Lee any favors by...
pointing out that a denial for request of change of venue was grounds for appeal. They could have kept that in their back pocket in case of a guilty verdict.
shareI found it a little odd that Sandra Bullock's character was sooooo against the death penalty but had no problem defending someone who had decided on his own that two men deserved the death penalty.
shareMaybe she was against the government putting a man to death and calling it civilized punishment for killing but that Carl Lee's killing the rapists in revenge while in the heat of rage at the thought of them walking free was different. Maybe she was sure the jury would acquit them too because of what part of the country they were in. She might have been too sympathetic with the little girl to not see the conflict in her belief.
shareCygray, it wasn't odd. Sandra Bullock's character was a liberal, which means there's no logic to her thought process.
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Why because he has a point?
You want to play the game, you'd better know the rules, love.
-Harry Callahan
No, because it's ignorant to make broad, sweeping generalizations about any group of people. It would have been just as ignorant to say that there is no logic to the thought processes of a conservative. Besides, her logic does make sense. Obviously, she only agrees that the government should not be able to legally decide who lives or who dies. A murderer is a criminal. There is no legal sanction to their actions. Murder is pretty much the only crime that would even merit the death penalty (I realize there are a few others, but it's mostly just murder), therefore you could, by this logic, say that anyone who opposes the death penalty is hypocritical because all the people who would be put on death row would be murderers. But what people who are against capital punishment believe is that the government doesn't have a right to step in and kill anyone, not even a killer because the law is obviously supposed to be held to a higher standard than a criminal. It is in fact NOT hypocritical because people who are against capital punishment don't think it's okay for these killers to commit murder in the first place. THAT would make them hypocrites. They just believe that IF someone does commit murder, that the appropriate moral response isn't to just kill them also. It's basically the philosophy of "two wrongs don't make a right".
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