(September 7, 2011 at 6:08 pm)Rokcet Scientist Wrote:(September 7, 2011 at 5:47 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: It is cruel to slay people, even if they be a murdering rapist. This is also good for society at large.
No. Because the verdict can be wrong. It was in the cases of at least 12% of executed murderers in the USA since 1970. In hindsight they were legally proven to not be killers.
But society had already killed them...
So? The touted 12% of innocents killed were a lot less damaging than the 88% remaining who were

Quote:That's manslaughter, according to the same laws.
That society must go to jail for a looong time!
Laws aren't so because they are moral.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day