I will wholeheartedly support capital punishment when it can be shown to be a deterrent. Meanwhile, I do not support granting the government the right to take lives and then spend more dollars to execute that it costs to incarcerate for life.
The old complaint that life in prison would be fine if we would just do it doesn't hold up. We can do it if we choose and the odd case that is released from prison would probably be an argument against the DP more than for it.
If I were a victim's friend or kin I would, no doubt, support the killing but I would be the only person with that right and under the law I should be recused.
The DP is cruel and unusual and no less barbaric than the Muslim law allowing the victim's family to choose the manner of execution and be the executioner.
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What's wrong with Life without parole?
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- The Supreme Court decision on the death penalty for crimes committed by minors
- What's wrong with Life without parole?
- It would seem that for liberals, the only lives worth saving are those of guilty people and the only lives worth ending are those of the innocent or sick.
- Conservatives Creed" - "Life starts at conception and ends at birth."
- Liberals Creed - who needs the political process when we've got the courts!