>>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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>I suppose to some degree that might be true - but they're also locked in a prison somewhere so I would expect they would be
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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.
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>So you think killing is wrong, and if you do it then someone else kills you.... That's one of the thing that I find twisted with this argument - you guys jump up and down dont kill dont kill - but if the state does it, well then that's fine.
>It would seem to me if you had a problem with people killing each other then you'd actually be against it.
>There is a difference between "justice" and "revenge" and this "eye for an eye style of justice" you speak of is like 2,000 years old. I'd like to think we've progressed a little since then, eh? And yet AGAIN I go back to the 1 in 8 thing.

Whoops, you beat me to it. I agree 100% about the paradox.