Re: Not always joking, it seems

> > > jamesd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > >
> > > > We really need a system where in straightforward cases, in some
large
> > > > proportion of murders, if the murderer is arrested red handed
Friday
> > > > night, he gets hanged in the public square at noon Saturday.
> > >



I think it's been done.

Wasn't there a short in Analog where some young punk ran over and killed a
little girl about 9-30, was caught by traffic cops, immediately tried by
the
robot judge thay carried in their van, and about 10-30 (?) the same
evening
was vapourised in the execution chamber fitted in the back of the same
van?

Can't recall the exact title, but iirc it was the time of the execution.

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Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

Always drink upriver from the herd (song title)