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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Surely the death penalty has no place in civilised society, to execute people for their crimes makes the state no better than than the killer they are prosecuting imo, why run the risk of turning him into a martyr, not that I think he will, however he would have been guaranteed not to be if he had been locked away for the rest of his days
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Both true, but they are separate issues. The point I address specifically is that the logic hypocrisy of capital punishment follows to hypocrisy in all justice.
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Of course there are already some that are saying the Iraqi's didn't deal with it them themselves and that they got their hanging through forgoing due process
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I beg to differ mate. The court was Iraqi, the judge was Iraqi, the person who signed his death warrant was Iraqi, the witnesses were Iraqi, and it was held outside the green zone, in a (presumably) Iraqi-controlled area.