I don't believe that the death penalty is ever justified because I don't believe that there could exist a situation where the death penalty is necessary to protect others. Unnecessary harm is unjustified, in my mind.
And to comment on the other discussion in this thread: I'm also anti-abortion rights, with the sole exception of protecting the mother when pregancy threatens her life. But I don't view any combination of anti/pro death penalty and anti/pro abortion as necessarily inconsistent. They're two significantly different subjects.
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I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.
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