I recall hearing Scott Glen say that, up until his role in Silence of Lambs, he was firmly anti death penalty. Then he went to FBI's Behavioural Science unit & listened to tapes made by serial killers of their victims. Overnight he became a supporter of death for some criminals
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So when a prisoner serving life in prison without parole kills a guard, another prisoner, or escapes to kill a civilian or witness, what would be the sentence upon conviction if there is no death penalty? Double life as if that is real?
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Never mind the money that has to be spent that can go to other uses.
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Slavery was ended by a war.
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In America!
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Ergo, for slavery to be entirely eradicated in the Americas, it had to be eradicated in the country where it required a war, as well as others where it was ended by other means.
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bad idea. capital punishment is a good that should be reserved for most extreme cases but it should be retained and reinstated where it has been abolished.
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Yes, I too believe in giving the government power to legally execute people.
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only *guilty* ppl and only in most extreme cases
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The fact that even a small percentage of falsely guilty people will die is enough to warrant it to never be okay. The justice system is supposed to be about rehabilitation. Death isn't rehabilitation
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Slavery has been on the rise, globally, for the better part of a decade now. Methinks you used the wrong metaphor.
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Let’s hope not.
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I dunno man. Of the states that have the death penalty, quite a few are ardent about it, even in the face of corporate and European embargoes on relevant drugs.
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A bunch of weirdos dreaming of ways to be humane to individuals who treated their victims inhumanely...
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Then again, the tide may turn, as it often has in the past. And then, more deserving murderers can be executed. We can hope.
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No death. Too easy. For murderers and pedophiles, it’s simple: 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, building iPhones until they die from natural causes or succeed at taking their own life. Give some little Chinese fella a chance at life. Death is too easy and prison to chill.
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There’s a good principled argument for it—retribution in certain horrific cases. That is to say, cases in which retribution screams loudly and silences other three sentencing rationales. Best pragmatic argument against it is error. Tailored use may reconcile these arguments.
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The retribution has been known to not ease the suffering of victims. And since even murderers have families the death penalty usually increases suffering. So what’s the point? Barbaric.
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Easing suffering isn’t the issue. It’s channeling social outrage at perpetrated horror. Retribution-punishment-is a policy pillar of criminal sentencing with three others, specific and general deterrence and rehabilitation. Some crimes deserve only the most august punishment.
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