A death sentence wrongly imposed cannot be commuted once imposed. There are enough people wrongly convicted (to wit: one, but there have been more than one) to make the death penalty unacceptable. Until our justice system is without error, I don't want to be complicit in the death of one wrongly convicted person. The innocence Project
Also, as a side note, I don't believe in eternal anything, so the idea that someone who has done something heinous should be excused from punishment for as long as possible makes no sense to me. I believe there is no hell for punishment after death. Prison is what we've got.
If we are going to use the death penalty as a method for cleaning up the gene pool, we will have to take a good look at eugenics. Classify a human being as a non-human, to be put down like an animal, because of his or her actions? Do we really want to bust people to sub-human because they are not humane?
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Why I don't.
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- Why I support the Death Penalty
- Another Appropriate Person For Capital Punishment.
- It's hard not to support capital punishment, I certainly do;
- John Stuart Mill, the Founder of Western Liberalism, Supports the Death Penalty.
- The HZ Law
- A painless death is too good for them
- Could you accept
- Why I don't.
- I can not watch the video..or read the article whichever it is,
- It's easy to understand the upset and dismay.