New Vision (Kampala)
10 November 2009
The utility of the death penalty has, of recent, attracted a lot of debate, especially when the landmark constitutional court decision of the Attorney General vs Susan Kigula and others had just been passed early this year. The pro-death penalty group and the increasingly vibrant anti-death penalty group each put up strong arguments to support their sides.
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Is this primarily an argument against the law, now reported to be under consideration in Uganda, that would impose the death penalty for the crime of having gay sex while being HIV-positive?
As a Californian and a citizen of the U.S., I'm appalled to think that this is probably the consequence of our homicidally homophobic, de facto Ambassador, Reverend Rick Warren and his 40 days and 40 nights campaigns to make the whole world buy his stupid book, "The Purpose Driven Life." and practice abstinence only until heterosexual married monogamy for life.
l do not agree with your sentiments New Vision...if people with AIDS/HIV deserve the death sentence, l think they should get it. Consider people with cancer...why did you not include them there?? in fact, people with cancer would be more aggrieved because they did not choose to do anything to get the cancer unlike some bad choices by AIDS victims who got infected by someone else. I think HIV/AIDS patients should be treated like everyone else!!!