Thoughts on the Woolwich killing

[Something completely different]

I don't care about the cost, I think it's morally wrong to pay for the upkeep of a murderer.

Cant you see how you contradict yourself within one sentence?

You might also want the death penalty because you want closure? Don't you want the State to get rid of a human being who ended your own family or friends? Or would you rather see them playing basketball in prison?

Oh how obvious, an appeal to emotion.

Well. I have nothing to say in a legal matter. And that it the entire point of a criminal justice system. It is not supposed to please the lust for revenge of wronged individuals. A court is supposed to be a fair and unbiased institution and not a place that legitemises revenge.

I don't really see the point of debating this issue because we're as dogmatic as each other,

Where am I being dogmatic???

but just to summarize the main reasons I want to see the death penalty:
1) It guarantees that the murderer doesn't kill again.

So can a prison

2) It provides the State a way out of using taxpayer funds to pay for the upkeep of murderers which I believe isn't moral.

you priviously posted:

I don't care about the cost

Where you also managed to contradict yourself in the same sentence.

Anyway, I previously pointed out than an execution is more expensive than a life sentence.

3) It helps bring closure to grieving family and friends.

A prison sentence can certainly also be a closure.
Other than that, a court is not here to bring closure, it is here to bring fair and just judgements.

4) It is, in my humble opinion, the only punishment that fits the crime.

Fine, your opinion.