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Todays liberals don't make sense....pro-death penalty and anti-Isreal? I mean come on...don't you guys know what you're supposed to stand for?
Todays liberals don't make sense....pro-death penalty and anti-Isreal? I mean come on...don't you guys know what you're supposed to stand for?
Over 200 men have been exonerated after having been proven guilty by a unanimous jury.
Quite often, circumstantial evidence is more conclusive than witnesses are.
My point is that with 200 men being exonerated, the death penalty could only be imposed if there was absolutely no doubt of guilt. I guess what I am saying is that while I do not have a moral problem with euthanizing a person who is proven to be a sub-human, the burden of proof should be so high as to restrict the punishment for only a fraction of cases that currently call for it.
I have no idea to what you refer. The issues are so disparate that I'm bemused as to what you are trying to link together. Where does advocacy for the death penalty and opposition to Israel intersect? Who are you suggesting is cheerleading for both?
Killing someone to prove that killing someone is wrong.
I still think that life without parole is a harsher sentence than a painless death. Of course, no one really knows what happens after that death, do they?
My point is that with 200 men being exonerated, the death penalty could only be imposed if there was absolutely no doubt of guilt. I guess what I am saying is that while I do not have a moral problem with euthanizing a person who is proven to be a sub-human, the burden of proof should be so high as to restrict the punishment for only a fraction of cases that currently call for it.
i'm from a Country where the death penalty has been abolished forever after laws were passed ensuring it could never be reinstated. prior to that, the death penalty had not been used since 1967.
the whole system is simply too unreliable to do anything that is irreversible. it always amuses me to see the people who loudly campaign for less Government interference in their lives are the same people who are quite happy to give that same Government the absolute power to choose life over death.
Those 200 juries did not have any doubt. At least not any reasonable doubt. Juries make mistakes, and a mistake in killing a human being cannot be later rectified. A prisoner can be released from jail. I know of no way to bring a wrongfully executed person back from the dead.
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