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Originally posted by seretogis
If someone seriously doesn't understand that killing someone and cutting out their unborn child from their womb, is bad, how on earth do you punish them? You don't. You remove them from society so that they can do no more harm.
Execution is cheap, all you need is one bullet and someone willing to pull the trigger.
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You can't possibly be that naive. In the first place, death by firing squad doesn't happen any more. It's gas chamber, lethal injection, or more rarely, electrocution. All three of those methods cost more than a bullet. Second, after the initial trial you don't really think her lawyers are gonna roll over and give up do you? They're gonna appeal for years, costing the government literally hundreds of thousands of dollars just to try to kill her. It'll wind up costing FAR more than putting her in jail until she dies of natural causes would.
Third, no one's saying that what she did was not a bad thing to do. It was. What we're saying is that if our society is going to view killing as a bad thing to do, then it's rather idiotic for our society to have government-sponsored killings.
And this woman is not a scheming, manipulative liar. This woman is a lunatic. She's obviously crazy - no sane person would do what she did. She deserves to be locked away forever. She might even deserve to die - but that is not for us to decide.
By the way, people who use the argument "kill them because otherwise they'll be paroled" have a serious morality problem. They're saying "our justice system is screwed up, but let's not bother fixing it. Let's just kill people so they can't take advantage of what's broken."
The answer is to fix the justice system so that murderers/sex offenders/etc do not have the opportunity to leave prison at all. Ever.