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See I don't view the death penalty as revenge, punishment or a deterrent really, I see it more as a simply a penalty for doing something that (in most cases) is utterly unthinkable. Lets face it there are some crimes/people that simply no longer fit within the realm of the punishment/rehabilitation philosophy and neither the prisoner or society will ever benefit from any sort of rehabilitation program. So what do you do with that?
Maybe there isn't a right answer for some crimes be it death penalty or life in prison but if somebody is going to go through the trouble to commit such a heinous act as to warrant the death penalty in the first place then I don't really have much of a problem with that person giving up their right to exist.
Now of course there is never going to be a flawless system, but we should be striving to remove as many imperfections from the process as possible. Its a very lofty penalty to extract from anybody and if we are going to ask for it we need to make sure they system that does it is as accurate as humanly possible. Nobody should ever have to die based on circumstantial evidence and flimsy eye witness testimony.
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