[PhatBack]

So let me get this straight. If someone breaks into your house and points a gun at your child, you are all for blowing them away. However, if the guy pulls the trigger before you do and kills your child. Then death for the perp is now out of the question?!?

I'm sorry, but if I were one of the victim's relatives, not only would I be in favor of this guy being put to death, I would be begging them to let me take HIS shotgun he used in the murders and turn his head into a soup-bowl!!

[No Blue States]

If anyone has pics of Tookies victims, this thread would be a good place to post them imo.

[MineralMan]

"So let me get this straight. If someone breaks into your house and points a gun at your child, you are all for blowing them away. However, if the guy pulls the trigger before you do and kills your child. Then death for the perp is now out of the question?!? "

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Not if I am there. If I am there, the perp dies. If I am not, then the situation is no longer immediate. I described that immediacy situation above in an earlier post.

No, I do not believe that the state should execute criminals. I believe the state should incarcerate them.

The question of what I would do in a particular situation is beside the point. I might well react and kill the murderer of a loved one, even later. However, I would not want the state to do so.