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Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan
How else are you going to send a message to the public that murders and other crimes won't be tolerated.
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The message to "the public" doesn't need to be sent. 99.9% of us "get it" without having to be told it's wrong. Those who don't get it won't ever, even if we give the go-ahead to the state to start whacking people.
The people who, logically, should be worried about the death penalty are not.
People who kill other people don't expect to be caught and they don't worry about the repercussions. They don't think "well, if I get caught I'll only spend my life in the slammer, but at least they won't kill me".
We gripe all the time about how incompetent the justice system and the government is, but some of us want to give them the right to kill people. I don't get it.