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Originally Posted by Fire
And I support the Victims right to make a decision- if the victims want to not pursue vengence, then that is their right- if they feel that they could live with condemning another person to death, then that too, is their right..........I know victims who will sleep better when their attacker is put to death- not for revenge, but for the knowledge that that person cannot hurt anyone else , ever, if they are dead........
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Have you ever read any Greek tragedies... or perhaps even some of Shakespeare's? I will repeat: evil begets evil. Vengeance leads to vengeance leads to vengeance. You kill my brother, I kill yours, you kill me, my father kills you, your father feeds my father's children to my mother. Where is the justice?
And as far as having knowledge that the person cannot hurt anyone else... that is what incarceration is for. There are several reasons why capital punishment has fallen out of favour. Think about it.