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In reply to the discussion: Why I utterly reject the death penalty. [View all]Jgarrick
(521 posts)2. "Every last person living in this nation becomes just as evil". Really?
So everyone in the US from a newborn babe to a hundred year old in a nursing home somehow becomes the embodiment of evil when a murderer is put to death?
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Since murder is a horrible crime, how long a prison sentence should you suffer?
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#41
You don't have to go to a red state newspaper website to find those types of comments
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#24
The only time a use of deadly force is ever justified, by any person, state or otherwise,
morningfog
May 2014
#43
The death penalty is not murder because it is not an illegal killing by definition.
aikoaiko
Apr 2014
#31
By that description, the Holocaust was not murder because it was not illegal.
MohRokTah
Apr 2014
#32
I'm sure some were, most weren't, but this is nothing but a red herring to your original point
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#39