RE: The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why?
June 30, 2011 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2011 at 4:01 pm by bozo.)
(June 30, 2011 at 8:11 am)DaveD Wrote: Against, for all the usual reasons plus another one that isn't often mentioned.
With executions you need executioners.
People who relish the idea of taking a human life shouldn't be allowed to.
People who don't shouldn't have to, if it is as avoidable as using life imprisonment instead.
Interesting that the prolific hangman Albert Pierrepoint, who was so good at the job that he was selected to despatch the nazis convicted at Nuremberg, at the end of his long career wrote that he was no longer in favour of the death penalty.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?