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Originally Posted by transplant99
Uh...no it really isnt.
One way to guarentee that a convicted murderer does not re-offend is to end their life.
Read the statistics.
What's flawed?
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In the initial post you provided no information regarding the circumstances surrounding the correctional officers deaths. Even given some of these circumstances, there is no way of knowing whether or not eliminating certain prisoners via capital punishment would have prevented these officers being killed. Perhaps they were targeted by other inmates and the murderers were selected assassins, perhaps they were killed in large confrontations and some one else would have been the killer, perhaps, had these men been put to death, these officers would have been off-duty and gotten run-over by a truck.
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Compensation is not vengeance. Compensation is justice:
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That is such a profoundly different way of looking at the world from mine that I don't think I can formulate an answer for it, other than perhaps this:
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Matthew 5:38-39.