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Originally Posted by daswig
Wrong. The Death Penalty is the legal killing of a person with just cause (being convicted with due process of law and sentenced to death), while murder is the illegal killing of a human being by a human being with malice aforethought. Murder is illegal. The death penalty is legal.
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Yeah. Exactly. Most states do not have the death penalty - therefore it is illegal in most states. Simply because something is legal or illegal in a particular state does not make it the right thing. This WHOLE DEBATE is about the states that think the death penalty is acceptable. You can't argue it
is acceptable simply because those states say it is.
Again, you can't argue "the death penalty is ok because the death penalty is ok". You're not basing your argument on anything at all. Stick with the other common pro-capital punishment arguments, such as deterence, retribution - but even then you'll need to back those up with something other than your nihilism.