A
Yeah.
B
But over here, where we're promised the civil liberties of purs-, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, then taking that away is a, a heinous act.
A
Yeah, in some eyes. I think some people give up that. I think some of what we consider rights are really more privileges than, than what most people think of them as. I don't know what, um, Texas's criteria for capital murder is, do, capital punishment is, do you know? Are there some set guidelines, like only under these circumstances?
B
I don't know. I believe it's, uh, at the discretion of the judge or jury.
A
Uh-huh. I used to live in Virginia, and I know when they first reinstated capital punishment it was only, um, if someone killed a police officer or someone committed rape and then murder. Those were the only two circumstances where you could give someone the death penalty, which I think is a little too limited.
B
I tend to agree with you there. Um, my belief is that, is that, um, any crime that's freely committed, you know freedom of choice --