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Question: Should we be executing more people?
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: February 09, 2010, 07:46:23 PM »

What we really need to do if were going to keep the death penalty is drastically reduce the time between sentencing and executing said sentence.  A death penalty that has people staying on death row for over a decade is not worth having.  Either figure out a way to speed up the appeals process or eliminate the death penalty altogether.
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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2010, 10:16:29 PM »

While I am marginally in favor of capital punishment, for the sake of the friends and families of the victims, having the sentence be final and certain in a reasonable time, whatever it may be, is more important.  Given a choice of having to wait fifteen years to find out if a death sentence is carried our or having a family member's murderer sentenced in a year's time to a life sentence, even with a possibility of parole, I'll take the latter simply to have a resolution to what happened.
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2010, 01:16:20 PM »

I simply have an opposing viewpoint that if we're truly a benevolent nation, we can't murder people.

I take it then that you do not agree with the argument that some capital punishment opponents make that life without parole is a harsher sentence than death.  After all logic would call for people who believe that and who wish us to be a benevolent nation to support capital punishment.
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