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Originally Posted by squirrelyburt
I find it very curious that those who oppose the death penalty for premeditated crimes, support the killing of unborn, who do not yet have rational or criminal thought. More than this, I can accept the legality of abortion, but then how can people be charged for the murder of an unborn child as in the recent Scott Peterson case?
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i've never heard of people disagreeing with the death penalty in premeditated murders. that would be included in opposing the death penalty period. but there's a big difference between saying 'the death penalty is always wrong/immoral/whatever' and saying 'the death penalty for premeditated murder is wrong/immoral/whatever.' can you agree with that?
and scott peterson was charged with two counts of murder for two reasons. one was that there had been the intention by laci to carry the child to term (a weak argument in my opinion) and because pro-life advocates had managed to get a law on the books making a fetus to be conisidered as a second victim in a crime against a pregnant woman as a means to chip away roe.