Over the years I slowly came around to believe the death penalty was wrong. If one innocent man or woman is executed, the system has failed. But when we have these types of incidents it makes me feel the death penalty should exist in Canada. If the idea that doing something like this could cost you your life, stopped one person from committing an act like this, it is equally justified to exist IMO.
The big question I guess is, "Are more innocent people going to be executed, or are more innocent lives going to be saved by it's existence?"
If someone, could somehow answer that question, it would be much easier to justify the the fact that whatever evil human being did this, will still have the privilege of some sort of life, as undignified as it may end up, it it still life. Something a two year old, a pure innocent two year old, has been robbed of.
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