RE: Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)
June 18, 2015 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2015 at 8:09 pm by Regina.)
Against in all but the most exceptional circumstances (war criminals, mass murderers etc).
I don't believe in it because I think rehabilitation and preventional measures are more worth it. Why spend so much money on killing criminals when we could be spending it on trying to prevent crime in the first place? It's a waste.
Also there's always the chance of executing someone innocent.
I don't believe in it because I think rehabilitation and preventional measures are more worth it. Why spend so much money on killing criminals when we could be spending it on trying to prevent crime in the first place? It's a waste.
Also there's always the chance of executing someone innocent.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie