(June 12, 2020 at 2:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(June 11, 2020 at 8:09 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Get ready for a backlash.
I support the death penalty for certain crimes and certain degrees of crime.
Serial killers, vicious murderers, terrorists who actually commit acts of terror, among others, should be removed from the planet if there is absolutely no doubt about their guilt.
I'm not talking about a nasty death, either. A quick removal is appropriate.
Many people who have been executed have been found later to be innocent.
The "absolutely no doubt about their guilt bit" is a slippery slope.
No.
A downhill water slide is a slippery slope.
Having a minimum level of assurance that the wrong person doesn't get executed is a standard.
Hence if there is even the tiniest fraction of a doubt then the sentence is life in prison.
And I do mean life.
Dying to live, living to die.