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Originally Posted by Mick
Those who are not in favor of the death penalty, had it been one of your kids they kidnapped and tortured and recorded their screams and took photographs of their evils deeds, could you honestly say, hand on heart, those two **** bags didn't deserve to be Executed ?
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No I couldn't. I would probably not want even execution, far too little pain involved. But we shouldn't design a justice system on that. Victims are unlikely to be thinking clearly and there are other needs than just revenge and punishment. We don't have the death penalty because, overall, we judge it as making society as a whole worse even if there are specific circumstances where we may wish it still existed.