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Originally Posted by transplant99
Is it not pretty obvious that every case is individual and should be dealt with as such...you know....like they do now?
Driveway stated there is NO PURPOSE to the death penalty.....and unless innocent victims are nothing, then that statement is clearly and obviously wrong.
Again...more law enforcement officers have been killed this year than inmates have been executed....so its not like there are guys being fried everyday or anything. One thing is definate...those that have been executed will never re-offend, and those officers killed will never be seen by their loved ones agian.
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I see. I wrongly assumed you weren't arguing the blatantly obvious.
Of course there are instances where it's going to look like the death penalty is the right way to go. And of course, with hindsight, you can make an argument for anything. I cited Dahmer, earlier, as a perfect example of a situations that seems to warrant the death penalty. That doesn't mean as a policy choice or as a principle, it's necessarily the way to go. The positives of having the death penalty, such as the situation you've cited, simply don't outweigh the negatives imo, as sad as it is to say.