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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
that is a different view of the death penalty.
Inasfar as I could accept the death penalty, it would have to be on the grounds and by the methods you talk about - the elimination of certain elements of society that are decided to be unfit to live, a methodical and surgical operation.
To kill someone, the only justifiable motive I can find is self defence, either of an individual, or of society - and it should be done as efficiently as possible if it is to be done.
Calls for brutal torture to be given to torturers, public spectacles of execution, and so on.. just leaves me call. Vengence is not imo a justifiable motive or cause of punishment. And I think it is widely accepted by most people that the death penalty is not a deterrent against pathological or sexual murderers.
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I agree, with what you say, that it needs to be done quick and efficient, lethal injection is one of the good ways for this IMO.
But as for "The death penalty is not a deterant against pathological or sexual murderers." I must disagree, You see, the kind of sexual crimes like this that happen in china are very much less frequent than here in the US. This is because of amazingly high punishment for these things.
What I "think" your saying though is that the pathological rapists dont think about consequences anyway, so this wouldnt stop them. That is true, and that is why crimes like this still do happen in china. However, the reprocussions for such things being so high, those that think "oh I'll get away with it" will drop, simply because the risk is so much too high.