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Tezcatlipoca · 21-01-2005, 19:56

I've voted "No, never".

I do not believe it is right for the state to take someone's life as punishment. Keep murderers locked up for life, but don't kill them.

There is also the miscarriage of justice issue, as others have pointed out. People have been executed before, only for it to later have been found that they were wrongfully convicted. Also has happened (& still happens) in the US. IIRC, there was one state a few years ago, which imposed a moratorium on the use of the death penalty after it was found that large numbers of its death row prisoners should never have been convicted.

21-01-2005, 19:56	#52
Tezcatlipoca Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cambridge Posts: 16,760	Re: Capital punishment I've voted "No, never". I do not believe it is right for the state to take someone's life as punishment. Keep murderers locked up for life, but don't kill them. There is also the miscarriage of justice issue, as others have pointed out. People have been executed before, only for it to later have been found that they were wrongfully convicted. Also has happened (& still happens) in the US. IIRC, there was one state a few years ago, which imposed a moratorium on the use of the death penalty after it was found that large numbers of its death row prisoners should never have been convicted.