<p>Interesting story. The use of acid in attacks against women is frighteningly common in certain countries but I have never read of the punishment actually being an eye for an eye. I usually avoid the political threads like the plague but… Opinions?</p>
<p>Mine - part of me cringes and thinks how barbaric. Part of me thinks it is fitting. Whether it should actually be allowed to happen or not, I can’t help admiring the fact that she is not willing to take the pay off money.</p>
<p>The man is a very very sick fellow. I say, keep him behind bars forever and let’s move on. I find it difficult to imagine how blinding him will prevent other people from throwing acid in the future. </p>
<p>We know that in this country, capital punishment does not prevent other murders.</p>
<p>“We know that in this country, capital punishment does not prevent other murders.”
That’s cause we suck at applying it. It works better in Singapore where they just hang you within a few months for everything on up from drug smuggling</p>
<p>Ever see the documentary “Crazy Love” about Burt and Linda Pugach?<br>
He blinded her with acid. Then she married him after he got out of prison. It is one of the strangest cases ever.</p>
<p>Scary. I have known a few domestic abuse victims including a very close friend and 2 close family members. Try as I can, I cannot understand why they stay or how they make excuses for and forgive the abuser. I am a pretty easy going person and not violent but, if for some reason I could not get away, a guy would truly have to sleep with one eye open if they laid a finger on me.</p>
<p>And to marry someone after that - that is just horrifying to me.</p>
<p>How exactly do we know the death penalty here doesn’t prevent other murders? Certainly it doesn’t prevent all murders, but to say it doesn’t prevent murders? We have no way of knowing how many people didn’t commit that crime, only how many did.</p>
<p>I watched the woman on TV and after seeing what the criminal did to her, I can understand how she feels. What that guy did to her is beyond horrible.</p>
<p>Well, I can’t, can I? I can only offer my opinion to the question. But the fact that acid-throwing is horridly common place is a human rights question, I think. I think we all have a stake in that.</p>
<p>I can entirely understand the human desire for equal revenge. Victims have every right to want it to be so. However, I think the state should rise above such an emotional response and take the higher moral road. When the state acts like its worst members of society, I think that is a bad sign.</p>
<p>However, the number of people who were on death row who have been exonerated by modern DNA resting is frightening. Apparently police and DA’s frequently respond to political pressure by playing “grab the n_word”.</p>