>Justice too often is about revenge rather than anything else..
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>The death penalty is babaric regardless of the form. In that sense the US is totally backward to any other western country.
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>"Thy shall not kill"


It's actually "Thy shall not murder".



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>>--Oh there were quite a few comments. The dutch vice premier, Zalm had some comments on the barbaric way hussein was punnished.
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>>Most comments contained emotional pretexts and biases regarding the use of the death penalty.
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>>I read some commentary about how it 'returned to the 18th century'....as far as the death penalty goes, I think maybe we need a little more of that.
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>>There's too much concern about making it 'peaceful and painless', to the point where so-called civil rights activists scream their heads off when a condemned man suffers 10 minutes of pain because they can't get the needle in correctly.
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>>Kevin