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tombi123 said:
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.


True but at the same time the other option is "Force the other guy to cover his eye with an eyepatch for the rest of his life." 

So it's not like the death penalty makes anybody more blind.

 

That being said.  I am anti-death penalty not so much in principle, but in practice.  It's often more costly then incarceration since appeals will pretty much always be used and is unevenly applied as it seems like it's disproportionatly given to people groups of people.

 

Also, forget about the murderer and whether they deserve to die...  i think it's a hell of a thing to make somebody kill someone else.   I mean, what's life for an executioner?  It's got to be a pretty damn stressful job... even if you have 3-4 people with dummy buttons.   Odds are you've killed someone/there is that chance.