RE: Indonesia to execute six drug offenders
April 29, 2015 at 1:19 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2015 at 1:21 am by Mudhammam.)
(April 28, 2015 at 7:11 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: The death penalty is barbaric and uncivilized - regardless of the crime. It is a legitimate thing to kill in order to prevent someone from committing an evil act but if they have already done so, what's the point? Better to make them do restitution and/or rehabilitate them.I think the point is the ideal of ultimate justice. There are certain crimes that humanity views so grave that the punishment demands the highest penalty possible --- forfeiting one's own life. And perhaps the foreknowledge of such a severe consequence does sometimes serve as a prevention of the act.
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