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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Not practical in what sense?
I'm not against capital punishment for philosophical reasons -- I've seen the argument that "the state should never execute its own citizens", but I don't necessarily buy that. I would have no problem with someone like Paul Bernardo, for example, being put to death.
The problem I have is that wrongful convictions are a fact of life in our imperfect system of justice, and the thought of our goverment killing an innocent is so heinous to me that I cannot ever support the death penalty since it can lead to miscarriages of justice that can't be undone.
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Nope, death is too good for Bernardo. What we need is a way to make offenders like this suffer and greatly for the rest of their days. The human rights activists can whine at me all they want but I consider these offenders monsters, not humans. Make em suffer!