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Originally Posted by highthief
So, no, I don't agree with hanging Saddam. Justice must be applied equally to all - from gangsters to domestic murderers to those guilty of war crimes.
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What an interesting word. Justice.
We can join the rest of the free world I suppose and abolish the death penalty.
But again...justice.
dictionary.com has this as the 5th meaning and the one that applies here...
5. the administering of deserved punishment or reward.
So what is the deserved punishment for murder? For 10 murders? For a 100? For a million?
For some of you, apparently its life in prison. Now I can't say that life in prison would be a happy time, but how many of you will be committing suicide rather than face a life in prison? Not to many.
Where there is life, there is hope. Maybe I could escape, maybe a bunch of hippie types get on the state supreme court and change the life without parole law with their typical judicial activism, maybe I finally work on the writing I've been putting off for 10 years.
But justice? No, my victims, they are gone, dead, no life, but me, I'd have hope, and in my view, an undeserved hope.
You can oppose the death penalty based on human error, I can respect that, but don't talk about justice while doing so.