[Old_Mil]

Your notion that some crimes of a given type need to be singled out over others for "draconian punishments" (e.g. doling out a heavier sentence for beating up Joe Blow than for beating up John Doe because Joe happens to be gay) introduces a corrosive element of irrationality into the legal system."240 steve-b

This is not my notion at all, and in an ideal world all murderers and rapists would be executed for second offenses, if not first. However, that's not the system we live in.

[Zon]

This is not my notion at all...

It is according to what you wrote in your 317 post: "I have absolutely no problem legalizing drugs so long as you guarantee that a felony committed under the influence will trigger the death penalty." 

Two persons commit identical crimes and you sentence one to ten years in prison and the other gets the death penalty.