Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Good answer...

When you also include the fact that there have been quite a few innocent people who have been executed... and thus that makes the state a murderer... It's time for the death penalty to go away.

I utterly believe in killing to protect myself and others from an imminent threat, but once someone is arrested, the state should have no business beating, torturing, or executing people. Just lock them up forever.... and then, in case you find out years later that they were actually innocent, at least they are still alive and they can be freed.









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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

OK, no death penalty -- sentence him under the Code of Hammurabi.



He was responsible for quite a few deaths and quite a few limbs lost ... Would you really want him released as rehabilitated from prison in 30 years back into the society he cared nothing for committing an act of unspeakable premeditated terrorism?

Originally Posted by arock10

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/norway-shooter-anders-breivik-smiles-21-year-prison/story?id=17072142