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@ Wilse
What gives one human being the right to end another human being's life?
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Heck Wilse, that one's easy. It's the right of self preservation.
What I would like to know is, what do the anti-death penalty folks think gives them the right to try to make the rest of us continual and permanent victims?
As for an innocent person being executed, it has probably happened. But on the other side of that equation, I don't know which is worse; an innocent person being executed, or as you would have it, an innocent person spending the rest of his life in prison.
That is what you are arguing isn't it? Otherwise your argument could only mean you think anti-death penalty states only convict guilty people, and the pro-death penalty states convict innocent people. Kind of a silly argument in my opinion.
But then we could turn into a copy of that truly fair system adopted in Europe where a guilty person is sentenced to life in prison, and life in prison in Europe can mean as little as nine years of incarceration. No thanks, I like our system where a life sentence means something!
What gives one human being the right to end another human being's life?
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Heck Wilse, that one's easy. It's the right of self preservation.
What I would like to know is, what do the anti-death penalty folks think gives them the right to try to make the rest of us continual and permanent victims?
As for an innocent person being executed, it has probably happened. But on the other side of that equation, I don't know which is worse; an innocent person being executed, or as you would have it, an innocent person spending the rest of his life in prison.
That is what you are arguing isn't it? Otherwise your argument could only mean you think anti-death penalty states only convict guilty people, and the pro-death penalty states convict innocent people. Kind of a silly argument in my opinion.
But then we could turn into a copy of that truly fair system adopted in Europe where a guilty person is sentenced to life in prison, and life in prison in Europe can mean as little as nine years of incarceration. No thanks, I like our system where a life sentence means something!