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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
What exactly is "closure"? It's like a Dr. Phil word.
The crime that happened is never going to go away for the victim's family. It is never going to be closed. They aren't going to have closure. They aren't going to feel like everything is hunky-dory after the criminal gets strapped to the gurney and poisoned. It may provide some satisfaction that the guy is dead, but it doesn't settle the deal and it never will.
The implication of "closure", as I see it, means that once this "justice" is meted out that the family of the victim will be able to go on with their lives, happy that justice, in the form of a dead convict, has been served. Like a trade-off. "Yeah, that guy killed my buddy but now he's dead too, so I have closure".
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Well thankfully I have never had to go through it to be able to give an answer on that one way or another.
Clearly though, many have including the example i cited above....I guess one would have to suffer such a brutal occurance to understand what they mean by it.
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Brooks Douglass, who authored Oklahoma's right-to-view bill sixteen years after his parents were murdered, stated "It is not retaliation or retribution that I seek in witnessing the execution of the man who killed my parents. It is closure. Closure on an era of my life which I never chose to enter. Closure of years of anger and hate."
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