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  1. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    I don't believe you. Apart from that, you've missed the point entirely. There is no foolproof method. Somewhere, some time, someone's mother will be put to death for a crime she didn't commit. And that is why I am and will always be opposed to the death penalty. I think I will stop now. In...
  2. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    So presumably that would change your mind about the death penalty?
  3. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    What if your entire family were wrongly executed?
  4. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    What about a thousand innocents? What if those hundred million were diverted to, say, health-care, and subsequently patients who would otherwise have died recovered?
  5. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    What about fifty innocents?
  6. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Okay, what if you received clear evidence that, say, over a period of ten years a hundred innocent people had been executed? By the way, the way execution methods are set up no one person is responsible for the death of the prisoner. For example, three different people control the machine that...
  7. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Will you change your mind the day an innocent person is confirmed to have been executed by the state?
  8. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    I am not exaggerating when I say that this is the most disturbing thing anyone has ever said to me. How on earth does this strengthen your position? From what I read of it, this article says "life imprisonment laws are too strict; even people who have been rehabilitated can't be released"...
  9. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Oh, and everyone here should read this.
  10. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Do you see "killing a guilty person" as inherently a good thing?
  11. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    I... don't see any statement about the average length of life sentences.
  12. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Source, please.
  13. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Why are you assuming that all life imprisonment is at least 40 years? It was posted earlier in the thread that the average time inmates spend on death row is 12 - 14 years (check that post for the source). By numbers provided by Pwnemon this means that life imprisonment is as expensive as...
  14. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Oh! How incredibly stupid that we hadn't thought of that before. I'll just go flip the "justice system" switch from RACIST to FAIR.
  15. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Other people have handled everything else, but I have to say: I think your use of the word "only" here represents such a massive gulf in the way we view the world that no matter what we say we will never agree.
  16. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    No. No no no. People who think this way terrify me; nothing should justify the death of an innocent person at the hands of the state. It is a very slippery slope from there.
  17. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    How anyone can support the death penalty with the knowledge that people have been released from death row is beyond me. Let me spell it out: it is a virtual certainty that the US government (to use an example of a supposedly developed country) has condoned the murder of an innocent human being...
  18. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    If you say "yes, under certain conditions", what are those conditions? In what circumstances can you see capital punishment as a viable part of the justice system?
  19. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Oh, also, this should probably be in Serious Business.
  20. opaltiger

    Death Penalty

    Did you know it actually costs more to execute someone, because of all the appeal legal fees, than to imprison them for life? Also: so long as there is any possibility that the convicted is innocent - and there always is! - capital punishment should be abolished. People on death row have been...
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