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Originally Posted by cadre
The death penalty serves a distinct purpose and it is not to torture the victim.
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Have you ever been electrocuted? Or have you ever suffocated by poison gas? Have you ever been hung? I'd call each of those torture, and there are humaine ways to end people's lives. Is the purpous torture? The answer of that lies in this simple fact: there are no steps taken to ensure that the condemned will feel tremendous pain and suffering immediatally before death.
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Originally Posted by cadre
The purpose of the death penalty is that it gets people who will not ever be a functioning part of society of the street permanently. Think of psychopathic murders here. The death penalty removes these people from society because there is no other viable way to do so. Locking someone up for the rest of their life is not cheap by any means. Think about it, all of the people in jails are being supported by the government. The death penalty serves as a cost effective, efficient way to deal with those that can never be part of society.
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There are rarely trained psychologists on the juries that sentence people to death. Without very specific and intense training, how can one really know beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone cannot be reintegrated after years of therepy? Your answer to that would probably be dollars and cents, which I find facinating. Yes, it is cheap to kill people. It's also cheaper to simply drop biological weapons on the Middle East and then take their oil free of charge, so why don't we do that? Simple: morality. It's immoral to kill, espically in a system that is imperfect. Would you want to live in a country that has executed innocent people? Are you
really able to excuse that with a simple, "mistakes are made, so be it" type of statement?
Yes, saving money is important...but not at the cost of justice and what we know is right.
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Originally Posted by cadre
At least, this is how it is intended. Is it 100% fool proof? No, nothing truly is.
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And there we have it; the "life isn't fair" excuse. That's the same excuse used all around the world to excuse injustice. Like, cadre, is as fair as we make it. If we choose to do everything we can to make life fair, then we can succede. If we simply roll over and accept that life isn't fair, then life won't be fair.