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Capital Punishment Debate and defend your political beliefs on whether or not capital punishment is morally right.

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Old 01-11-2007, 10:04 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I feel, in most regards, that it is both. I think it's brutal as in it's outdated, and more focused toward revenge as opposed to justice. It's definitely ineffective, and doesn't live up to it's purpose of existence at all, which is retribution and deterrence. It also lets some of the worst criminals 'off the hook', so to speak; that they essentially won't have to 'live' though any punishment. In fact, most of the time, such criminals would rather have death.

The execution of Saddam was by all means a blunder. The way it was carried out, made it not justice, but rather bloody revenge with obvious sectarian overtones. It wasn't justice on behalf of the Iraqi people, it was a lynching of a Sunni by angry Shia. Not to mention the trial itself was conducted in such a way that any real democratic society would consider legally absurd.
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Old 01-11-2007, 10:06 PM   #12 (permalink)
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It's just that I find it so interesting that most liberals (and I'm not being insulting here, at least not for the moment) seem to do some flip-flops on this one. Nothing more or less. I just find it kind of interesting...
Not from this liberal. It's wrong. Period.
And, IMO, nothing would have been worse for Hussein than to be a figure of derision and ridicule, locked away in a closet for the rest of his life. Killing him has now made him a martyr to his followers - and to people who take their martyrs very very seriously.
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Not from this liberal. It's wrong. Period.
And, IMO, nothing would have been worse for Hussein than to be a figure of derision and ridicule, locked away in a closet for the rest of his life. Killing him has now made him a martyr to his followers - and to people who take their martyrs very very seriously.
Your opinion is of absolutely no interest to me.

You're a liar and you're obviously lacking ANY form of honest ethics.

Don't bother.
Old 01-12-2007, 11:35 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Not from this liberal. It's wrong. Period.
And, IMO, nothing would have been worse for Hussein than to be a figure of derision and ridicule, locked away in a closet for the rest of his life. Killing him has now made him a martyr to his followers - and to people who take their martyrs very very seriously.

I agree completely. Killing him has only made our troops over there less secure.
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I agree completely. Killing him has only made our troops over there less secure.
No it hasn't.
There has been absolutely no evidence, of any kind, that Saddam's execution has had ANY bearing on troop safety in Iraq.
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