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I think that self defense or defense of another are perfectly legitimate reasons for killing. If a person is threatening your life or the life of another without being provoked in a life threatening manner, then their intent was to injure and kill. This is a crime, both legally and relative to humanity. It is my personal belief that the punishment should be fitting of the crime, regardless of how "inhumane" it may seem.
If a person kills another person when not defending theirself, they should be killed in the same manner they killed another, regardless of how brutal or painful it may have been. If a person rapes another person, they deserved to be raped. I'm personally sick and tired of seeing people rape, murder, molest, and destroy the lives of victims and their families, only to have their arm swabbed clean before receiving lethal injection with sterilized needles. This is my belief, and I personally don't believe there is any better way to condition people from committing these acts again. I do not see this as "two wrongs don't make a right", I see this as correcting a wrong, plucking the weeds from the garden to keep it from spreading and killing the flowers that should have the opportunity to flourish.
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