This is, for the most part, a very black and white issue for most people, but I have yet to hear a satisfactory argument either way, and remain undecided on this issue. Both stances have flaws, although I feel that the arguments for the death penalty are more flawed. Therefore, I would be grateful if you would state what your stance is on this issue and explain it. Hopefully, I will be able to then come to a more definite decision. Thank you.

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison

One can release a person from prison, but not from death:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...112101384.html

Besides, we can't teach society to be less violent by killing.

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Yes, but cases such as those are incredibly rare, and are becoming more so due to better technology.

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison

Well, if you're looking for someone who is in the middle on this issue, I'm the wrong person. I'm 100% opposed to the death penalty with no exceptions. I'll be attacked for writing this, but I wouldn't have executed Adolf Hitler had I captured him alive. That doesn't mean I wouldn't feel like killing certain people, but I don't put my feelings ahead of lives.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

Why kill someone when you can let them live?

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No, I certainly wasn't looking for someone in the middle of the road. I wanted people from both sides to provide the best arguments they could. I already err on the side of pro-life, but I am not 100% definite.

I don't know if I would kill Hitler, I may have made him work towards the rebuilding of Europe, slave labour. As for never killing, I can't say I'd never kill. If my life, or the life of another, was threatened, I would use any means necessary to defend myself/them, if that meant killing, then so be it. Although that would have to be the very last option.

Why do some people deserve to live?

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison

Why does anyone deserve to live?

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What's this i hear bed? Word has it you and Pam are sleeping together.

Because, they have not taken away another's right to live.

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison

So taking away a person's right to live is the answer to a person taking away another's right to live?

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What's this i hear bed? Word has it you and Pam are sleeping together.

So what is the answer? Leaving them free to do it again?


The best justification for the death penalty, I have heard is that everyone has the right to life, and if you take another's right, you lose your's.

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It's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation... - Jim Morrison