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Originally Posted by oLd-SouL";p="
A few innocent lives by capital punishment in order to maintain a strong system of justice and punishment is a fair price.
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The problem with this kind of logic is when we start thinking of human beings as statistic figures. What's a few innocent lives here and there, right? But start thinking of these people as real individuals, and it puts that question. These innocent people have loved ones. They all have a life story. They pay taxes. They are someone's brother, father, or son. These are real people put to death by their peers. No way. It is not ok to let even one of these people be put to death by the very government that is supposed to protect them. I feel the same way about an innocent person dying in the electric chair as I do a soldier who would never let
one of his fellow soldiers die in the field alone without bringing him home. Not one.