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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
My main opposition to the death penalty is that it precludes any possibility (however remote) of reform. People can change. Not saying it's likely. Just that there is 0% chance now.
I like that this person (if they had to die) was killed in an unusual fashion. It will raise awareness that the government regularly puts people down like animals. Texas kills something like 200 people a year - mostly uneducated minorities with poor legal representation at their trials. Nobody even notices because it's out of sight out of mind.
If a society is going to endorse taking human life, it's not too much to ask that everyone is aware of it and is forced to consider it each time it happens.
I'm not saying it should be televised... but that might bring home what capital punishment actually is.
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Where was there any glimpse of being able to reform this man, there were three separate incidents, two of which were cold blooded murders one for profit, and one to escape from any prison.
This man was a cold blooded killer. There's nothing bad about him being removed from this planet.