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In reply to the discussion: What are your views on the death penalty? [View all]bucolic_frolic
(47,314 posts)7. It's for evil people caught red-handed with multiple pieces of corroborating evidence
I mean, there are criminals who made bad choices, and have had bad lives.
There is also premeditation, cold-blooded, planned, crime where at multiple points the culprit should have reconsidered his or her motives, morality, hatred, passion.
I don't like to think there are evil people. But there are. I don't think capital punishment should rely on evidence, or the testimony of one witness. It is hard for people to forgive hateful actions. Thus we have hate crime laws and classifications.
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I was assigned this topic as a junior high student for an essay that we were given
hlthe2b
Oct 2022
#5
It's for evil people caught red-handed with multiple pieces of corroborating evidence
bucolic_frolic
Oct 2022
#7
I am against the death penalty in all cases. It is state murder. Both my husband and I have
Demsrule86
Oct 2022
#21
Exactly and just one innocent person killed is horrible and not worth a billion murderers dying. nt
Quixote1818
Oct 2022
#22
It's never necessary, I can't believe anybody on this board is pro death penalty
USALiberal
Oct 2022
#13
There are some people who do such horrendous things that they should forfeit their lives.
Chainfire
Oct 2022
#15
I am against the death penalty, but as long as the majority support it in a democracy
JCMach1
Oct 2022
#17
Idiosyncratic thing... I just think if you support killing in the name of the people,
JCMach1
Oct 2022
#29
A great many people in favor of the death penalty are a-holes. I don't want to be in their boat.
Tetrachloride
Oct 2022
#25