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Killing in self defense comes from the notion that you have a right to life and the right to defend it. Killing for punishment comes from the notion that some crimes deserve certain punishments.
The DP should never be used as a punishment. It's something that shoud be done strictly to protect society from it's most dangerous members. Incarceration for life simply means that the person is a threat to fewer people.
Incarceration in a high-security prison can eliminate the threat almost entirely, while still preserving his/her life.
It's that word "almost" that ruins your argument. With our current penal system, there is no way to make such a person NO threat, just a minimal one. Unfortunately, there are people in this world who need to be 100% removed from any possibility of them ever harming another human being. Sadly, there is only one way to accomplish this... If there was an option, I'd say that we take it, but until that happens, we as a society need to have something in place to make sure that these kind of people never have even remotest chance of ever harming anyone.
This will work right up until the leftist can sell the public we just executed an innocent man. 60 minutes will probably repeat it, Anderson cooper will visit with his mom, and Fox with his hot wife!
Ok. What would be your course of action if, after the execution, it is found out the person was indeed innocent? What you you advocate we do for the family of that victim?
Self-defense is only legitimate because it is in the interest of your direct safety, not because it is acceptable to kill murderers.
I think it's absolutely wonderful to kill murderers.
Public hangings. Also, need to greatly increase the crimes that qualify for it.
Incarceration in a high-security prison can eliminate the threat almost entirely, while still preserving his/her life.
Killing is (sometimes) a necessary evil. It's never wonderful.
Indeed. Whenever I walk down the street and get a breath of air, I always think about how much nicer things would be if we were more like Iran. Never saw a bulldozer go down the street without thinking, "Too bad there isn't some guy hanging from that!"
The killer's victims do not get the same consideration.
Now I miss Tigger.Indeed. Whenever I walk down the street and get a breath of air, I always think about how much nicer things would be if we were more like Iran. Never saw a bulldozer go down the street without thinking, "Too bad there isn't some guy hanging from that!"
Really? So what being locked away for life is some sort of great consideration made for the criminal? Yeah, losing all trace of privacy, have almost all your rights violated regularly, and have almost no safety to speak of with no real way to protect yourself is just amazing consideration made for the criminal.
Indeed. Whenever I walk down the street and get a breath of air, I always think about how much nicer things would be if we were more like Iran. Never saw a bulldozer go down the street without thinking, "Too bad there isn't some guy hanging from that!"
Indeed. Whenever I walk down the street and get a breath of air, I always think about how much nicer things would be if we were more like Iran. Never saw a bulldozer go down the street without thinking, "Too bad there isn't some guy hanging from that!"
Tell you what. I'll write a letter to Perry and suggest instead of executing death row inmates, we bus them to your neighborhood and set them free since you love sub-human trash so much.
Not necessarily. Killing for punishment can also come from the perceived need to protect the society from future crimes.
Not sure I see the argument here. Does stealing silver spoons make someone sub-human trash? That was an offense punishable by death in the olden days.
I would expand the death penalty to apply to any conviction which currenty carries a sentence longer than 10 years, and to any 3rd feloney conviction, to include a 3rd feloney charge on the same act.This poll addresses capital punishment both in the states that have it and in the federal government.
The goal is to remove the diseased limb from the tree.I would eliminate the death penalty in it's entirety. Nobody, government official or citizen, should have the legal right to murder someone unless directly in self-defense. There's no need to become the very thing we claim to fight against. "You killed someone, and that's not okay, thus your punishment is that I will kill you." Makes no sense!
Colaterol damage.So you would be ok with taking a life when there's the slightest chance you might be killing someone who's innocent?
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