Thread: For Capital Punishment or Against it?
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Old 07-22-2005, 12:18 PM   #140 (permalink)
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You see that's what I don't buy. Because it simply does not make sense. You are calculating in legal fees and such.

Now keep in mind I am not saying that we should dole out death sentences willy nilly. But if you eat your victims, harm a child, rape a woman, wear your vistims face as a mask, you MUST DIE. Very simply.

Or better yet. I will agree with letting them live. If we don't have to feed or care for them.
Of course I am calculating in legal fees and such. That is the cost! If you were just defending your wallet, you would have to be against capital punishment.

As to your second part... Why must a person, even as you described, die? What is solved? How does killing fix anything? What you are seeking is an extreme form of retribution. That does not lower crime. It does not fix victim's families. Many experts say that executing a criminal is harder on the victims family because it takes 40+ years to really have any kind finality.

Plus I still do not understand this. You think that killing an innocent person is wrong, so wrong that it warrants capital punishment. Yet, you are willing to risk killing an innocent person just to get your precious retribution. If you want less innocent people to be harmed and/or killed, oppose the death penalt. Simple.
I think the death penalty serves as a detterent. Shit, if I didn't know that I'd get the death penalty, I'd likely go on a killing spree my damn self when I was done with society altogether. But I don't wanna die myself. What I am seeking is a form of retribution. These people have lost their rights, all of them, including the right to breathe as far as I am concerned. And if people insist on allowing them to live I am fine with that, so long as I work them as hard as I can find gainful employment for, and so long as I don't have to feed them or provide any sort of medical benefits or education to them.

And I don't think the legal fees should be a part of the cost because that's where we could do a lot of stream lining.