Should the U.S. Abolish the Death Penalty?

Should the U.S. Abolish the Death Penalty?

The death penalty has provoked heated discussion since biblical times, and today the debate remains as controversial as ever. Is such a sentence ever justified? Capital punishment is an intensely emotional topic for everyone involved because it sits at the intersection of life, death and the very definition of the word 'justice.'

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  • atliberty
    I wish we could have the DP

    I used to be for the death penalty for the bundy, dahmer and other heinous serial killers but after experience in the legal system I am not even sure those guys were realy guilty. Also they have used it on people that were involved in individual crimes of passion and bar fights where there are elements of self defense and other mitigating factors. Then too Timothy McVey publicly asked for the death penalty and it took them a long time to give him a leathal injection. If I had life in prison or death I would chose death. So like, if they found GW guilty of starting the Iraq war so his military industrial complex buddies could make the outlandish profits they did, I would want him to live in prison a long long time.

    - atlibertyUS March 29, 2009 4:00PM

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  • oneoldman
    well said atliberty

    Just waking up every day knowing that you would never again freedom would be worse the death penalty .

    - oneoldmanUS July 30, 2009 12:53PM

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