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  1. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    This whole thread is moving a bit too fast for me to keep up with (I have to read Sherlock fanfiction sometime, it's a busy life), but a comment to the effect of "murderers do not deserve rehabilitation" was made a while back. Here's the thing: Normal, healthy, well-adjusted people don't...
  2. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    But the jail guards were killed by an individual - people who undergo the death penalty are killed by their own government. There's an absolutely massive difference. Yes, proven to be guilty within a racist system. The argument here isn't that all the black/poor people on death row are somehow...
  3. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    But the justice system is heavily flawed, and there's no sign of that changing in the near future. In the meantime, people are going to be murdered by the government who wouldn't be if they were white. How can that not be a problem? Surely, even by your logic, the death penalty should be stopped...
  4. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    Also, the argument against "The Death Penalty is Racist" only covers half the problem - you're more likely to get the death penalty if you're poor or black, yes, but you're also more likely to be put on death row if you kill a white person or a woman.
  5. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    I thought America was founded on the principle of freedom (or has The West Wing taught me wrongly D:)? Which, you know, is pretty amusing in a discussion about imprisoning/executing people. Giving people driver's licenses cannot in any way be compared to a government actively executing its own...
  6. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    Plus, from what I've heard about American prisons, you guys damn well nearly cover your own costs of imprisoning people because prisoners are basically used as slaves. Ultimate source :D
  7. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    I'm fairly sure that what constitutes a life sentence varies from country to country. In the UK, for example, I think it is, yeah, only about fifteen years (I say 'only'), but in the US they often really do mean life.
  8. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    *giggles helplessly at idea of the death penalty existing in an ideal world* I'm sorry. I understand people supporting in it in principle but not practice, but since that is - and always will be - purely theoretical, surely it would be better to support something like rehabilitation, which is...
  9. Dannichu

    Death Penalty

    I have big, brightly-coloured stickers all over my room that say "END THE DEATH PENALTY" (the Amnesty International society at uni always has loads, so I pilfer them from time to time). So yes, I would be against the death penalty. For the reasons laid out by everyone else; there's not a single...
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