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Old 04-25-2003, 04:06 PM   #13 (permalink)
Pacifier
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Location: Duisburg, Germany
I'am fully against death penalty:

- as lebell said, the risk of executing innocent people is too high.

- it is no determent, USA has more muders that an lot of other nations. For me I would rather die than waste ~20 years in jail. if i go to jail not and get free in 20 years i would be 48, my whole life would be gone.

- For me, the state has to be an idol for the society, if the state shows me that killing is right it is a bad example for society

- in most cases I think the society and therefore the state has some responsibility for the criminals, the society is "making" their criminals, therefore I think they should try to correct those errors and not follow a "just throw 'em away" tactic.

- "an eye for an eye" is the tactic of the blind
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