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In reply to the discussion: Why I utterly reject the death penalty. [View all]morningfog
(18,115 posts)43. The only time a use of deadly force is ever justified, by any person, state or otherwise,
is when it is to immediately prevent a person from killing someone.
Your point is silly. You are suggesting that the only morally pure position is all or none and you fail to see the difference between stopping a gunman on a rampage to save lives and executing someone who has been neutralized and incapacitated for decades in an act of vengeance.
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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