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To: BJungNan

If we are losing 35,000 people a year to murder but executing 1 innocent person every 5 years, I say that is acceptable. That's why I support the death penalty. It is the ONLY way you can guarantee that a murderer doesn't kill again.


108 posted on 12/14/2004 7:49:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
If we are losing 35,000 people a year to murder but executing 1 innocent person every 5 years, I say that is acceptable.

Then your thinking on this issue is more in keeping with the thinking in China's system of justice. And having seen what can happen in that system, in any system really, that is a very dangerous position you take.

That's why I support the death penalty. It is the ONLY way you can guarantee that a murderer doesn't kill again.

There is a hole in your reasoning here. Does the premeditated killing an innocent person make you are murderer? And while I think it is a stretch to liken a government wrongly killing an innocent person to a murderer, my thinking is certainly opposite of yours. Ending the death penalty is the ONLY way you can guarantee that an innocent person is never killed again by the state.

Even if you don't buy into that one, your thinking is still flawed. Certainly a murderer can be kept from killing again - at least those on the outside of the prison wall. It is called life without the possibility of parole.

110 posted on 12/14/2004 8:04:44 AM PST by BJungNan (Stop Spam - Do NOT buy from junk email.)
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