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Smilo

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1. Playing God?

Reply to Lucy Goosey (Original post)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 12:22 PM

Mar 2012

Eye for an eye, etc.?

The death penalty - while making the living feel a smidgeon better - doesn't work, it is not a deterrent and it is a very backwards way of thinking. It is also a very expensive way of killing - and don't they say that killing is wrong.

I don't say I have the answer - but killing because someone killed does not seem right to me.

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Death Penalty drumbeat continues... [View all] Lucy Goosey Mar 2012 OP

Playing God? Smilo Mar 2012 #1

death is easy. pansypoo53219 Mar 2012 #2

I agree with pansypoo on this one. shockedcanadian Mar 2012 #3

They are rumbling about things like abortion again too arikara Mar 2012 #4