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Originally Posted by Teh_Bandwagoner
In no way do I sympathize with the murderer, but what does the death penalty accomplish? Were these men locked away from society so that they never hurt anyone again? If the death penalty was supposed to attone for the murders, how is it appropriate compensation? If so, then yeah he should have the death penalty. But so should his spouse if he has one, to compensate for the death of both the mom and stepdad. Maybe have his kids watch so that the psychological damage to the kids is also fair compensati
The death penalty isn't about justice out of fair compensation. In fact, I'm not entirely what exactly is the purpose of the death penalty.
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In my post it says the killer is free and is free to harm others..not locked up forever unfortunately. As far as the point of the death penalty, I think it was used at first for punishment, but later as a detterent for murder. I can't say for sure though. Personally, I am pro-death penalty, but rotting in jail forever is good too. Problem is in Canada they don't rot in jail, as my post earlier said.