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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
no, thats not what i'm saying. I knew the death penalty system was flawed and applied unfairly long before I was ever a member on this board. I still support it. I would just like to see the system changed, i.e. the process that I explained.
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Aren't you the most skeptical poster here on the issue of trusting authority to constitutionally uphold the "right of the people to bear arms"?
Yet you would yield the authority to determine who is "guilty enough" to deserve to be executed, to that same distrusted authority? That doesn't sound like the dksuddeth who I have come to know and respect for his wisdom, depth, and grasp of politics...although it does fit with what I know of your unwillingness to be "framed", "labelled", or stereotyped.
I'm discussing this in a "due process" environment. In a legally justified martial law situation...say, during efforts to repel an invasion of a foreign aggressor from our shores, I could see the need arise, in the eyes of military authority, for ordering executions....