Re: Death penalty
pcg <[email protected]>
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> No it isn't vengeance at least it doesn't have to be by definition. It is > indeed retribution but that is a very different thing. In the interest of saving innocent hairs from being split, I'll just say that the state shouldn't be in the business of retribution *or* vengeance. > And there all sorts of value it provides to society the most fundamental being > the deterrence that that individual will ever harm anyone again. That's not deterrence, it's prevention. > Life imprisonment is no guarantee of that That's a meaningless argument. If you feel that prisons should be safer, fair enough. We can discuss that. But it has nothing to do with this question. > The death penalty in such a case is just punishment. There's no such thing as "just punishment," as punishment doesn't create justice. > The economics argument is irrelevant and probably > in the current state of appellate law weighs in favor or > life imprisonment so don't attribute that one to me. Fair enough, then. It's it's not a deterrent, it's not just, and it's not economical. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot