The death penalty is always wrong.
The most fundamental right we have is a right to life. Even violating another person's right to life is not a sufficient condition for violating the murderer's right to life.
Obviously something lesser like rape is not even an issue.
This is so obvious to me I wonder how people think any differently.
It's because people tend to be blinded by their emotions and are unable to think critically when faced with things like child rapists. It's that same weak-mindedness and inability to think critically that manifests itself as the plague of organized religion, superstition and mass credulity.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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