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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
But inorder to mitiagate and lessen the amount of inoccent people being murdered by the death penalty, these checks and balances need to be in place, thus it would be inpossible to put the person to death the day after conviction.
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Uh...yeah I am aware of that.
in this particular case though...the guy killed 3 more inmates
before turning on the guard. 3 more life sentances....that'll teach him.
When is enough enough? Never? Let him keep going...why? What purpose does it serve other than to put other people in harms way? It makes zero sense.
The "purpose" of the death penalty in
some cases is valid and beyond argument. Just because Canada has no death penalty, does not mean that there are not very good candidates for its use...which seems to be a theme developing here. "We are better because we dont have it" mentality. I say that's a load of horse puckey.
Olson, Bernardo, Pickton...what's the real benefit of keeping them alive? Now as far as I know they have not re-offended IN prison, but I would almost guarantee that they would should they ever escape or even worse, get paroled. So again, in these cases, the DP would serve to protect society. Thereby making it a valid deterent AND punishment.
Again..I am not necessarily a "pro death penalty" guy, but holy cripes there are most certainly reasons for it.