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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
besides whether you think it is right to use the death penalty, you should think about why it should or shouldn't be used. is the purpose of our criminal justice system supposed to be to punish or rehabilitate? or a mixture of both? is the death penalty more about punishing the criminal or vengence for the victims?
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That's something to consider, too. I guess I always thought of the death penalty as a warning to all the potential murderers out there (although I guess it hasn't been working that way, for whatever reasons). There's also the perspective that society is protected from those dangerous individuals, although I suppose if they're incarcerated, they aren't posing much of a threat to the general populace.