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In reply to the discussion: Another Death Penalty Poll - if you could be sure of guilt or innocence would you support the DP? [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,441 posts)I'm sure you do have an opinion, but for whatever reason you choose to remain clandestine about it, after throwing out bits of red meat that seems to hint at what you believe.
I can only surmise that you either:
a) wish to limit the right of a defendant's appeal in a death penalty case so as to ensure the execution takes place within a relatively brief time after imposition (say one, two years)
or
b) are okay with the fact that in its current state, the death penalty is cost-inefficient (when compared to life incarceration) and typically takes years upon years to carry out.
Is that anywhere close on where you stand? Bark once for yes, twice for no. I don't get it--are you ashamed of your own opinion?
And what exactly do you believe the purpose of the death penalty to be?