>It doesn't change my disaprobation of the death penalty an iota. It still a barbar practice that shouldn't exist in any evoluate society.
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>Good think that bad spelling isn't a criminal offense. :)
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>I still think that a lifetime sentence with no chance of liberation is a far greater punishment.
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>There is this misguided belief that if you throw a cold-blooded killer in the can for life, it forces them to think for decades about what they did. Well, yes, they do think about it...they think about it OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, and celebrate in their minds how they did it. Even physicians who are opposed to the death penalty acknowledge this.
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>In this case of the news that William posted, I have zero issue with death by lethal injection. Actually, I'd like to go back to hangings on the White House lawn.
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>I never debate whether capital punishment is a deterrent....it's not even that relevant...what IS relevant is the concept of justice. For those who seek out to take a life, they deserve "an eye for an eye" style of justice.

Think about what you're saying. To me this is the ultimate paradox of capital punishment -- "You have done the most heinous thing possible, you have taken the life of another human being. And for that we're going to kill you." If you put that thought in a bird's brain the bird would fly backwards.

It also says something to me that we are the only "civilized" nation which practices capital punishment. It's pretty much us and the Arab nations, isn't it? Not exactly inspiring company. That is not kowtowing to the other civilizen nations, just an acknowledgment that when there are dozens of countries on one side and one on the other, the holdout may need to do a little thinking.

I don't think of life in prison as encouragement to repent. It's just the most severe sentence possible, short of death.