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Originally posted by arbiter13@Feb 24 2005, 12:37 PM
Anyways, punishment.
I like to look at it this way. If someone murders someone else, and they are sentenced to life in a hellish prison, how much does it cost to keep that prison running? To keep them fed and keep the guards paid and safe? To maintain the facility? That's money (resources) being wasted. Kill them. Firing squad. None of this "swab of alcohol before a lethal injection" crap. Bullets are cheap. I like to look at it from a objective standpoint. They've committed a crime and must be removed from this plane of existence so they are not a threat to others.
As for what crimes deserve the death penalty...that is another story. I'm still working on that.
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Financially it is actually cheaper to keep someone in prison for life then it is to execute them due to the various amounts of time and resources exhausted on legal issues (i.e. appeals, court time, rsearch and forensics, etc.) and it has been mathmatically proven many times over, but I too thought that execution was cheaper until I learned otherwise.
"Also, I must add that relative morality is one of the most fatal mistakes in history. " woohoo, someone finally agrees with me on that
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