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Originally Posted by oLd-SouL";p="
If we wanted to save innocent lives, we as Americans should simply stop driving cars and stop importing goods from 3rd world countries with few labor laws.
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This is a nice way of confusing the issue, but the issues you listed and capital punishment are unrelated.
The bigger picture is this: there are so many people in America that we are becoming cynical enough to see eachother as statistics. We give our government permission to execute people and then complain about how flawed our system is.
So let me get this straight, our system is so flawed and yet we want to give it permission to punish people in a way so that there is no taking it back? Please. Are we so unimaginative that we cannot think of different ways of punishing people other than life in prison or death?