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Originally Posted by SMG
I would however, terminate dangerous criminals with mental health problems, serial rapists, murderers & pedophiles etc, no problem.
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Ah, who decides these criteria though. Some you list are defined but
"dangerous criminals with mental health problems"?
If you were in power then anyone opposing you is obviously a criminal and must by definition be mentally unbalanced.
Also what of miscarriages of justice. Once someone is dead it is far harder to say, oops, sorry we got that one wrong. I am very much firmly of the opinion that it's better that guilty go free than the innocent are punished.
Death penalty also does not give the chance for the person to change and become a contributing member of society.