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akuma587 on 31 March 2009
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Username2324 said:
Moongoddess256 said:
We're talking to a brick wall guys :

What argument do you really have against the death penalty besides "life is precious".

It's people like you that have made it so expensive, and thats exactly how you like it, to convince other people we should get rid of it solely because of cost.

Otherwise you have no argument. You cannot provide a single reason as to how keeping them locked up but alive adds to society.

 

1) The death penalty does not deter criminals from committing crimes anymore than life in prison does.

2) Depriving someone of life is a power that a government should use sparingly, if at all.

3) The death penalty is not cost efficient in the judicial system. 

4) Thousands of people have been sentenced to death who were innocent.  Human beings are horribly flawed and should not have the power to condemn each other to death.

5) Giving the government too much power is dangerous.

Username, I would love to see you live in a country like China where police can trump up charges just so they can put in the newspaper they have caught a killer when really all they care about is putting the blame on someone.  I would laugh my ass off if they threw you in jail and sentenced you to death simply because it was easier for them to do that than to actually find the killer.  I would come to your execution and savor it while you died painfully and slowly.  I would wake up every day happy with that image in my mind of your death.

 



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