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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: one_less who wrote (132882)8/28/2008 12:30:38 PM
From: Land Shark  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
>The motives of vengeance or any imposition of suffering are not valid justifications for capital punishment and are, in fact, incompatible concepts, as I have stated in the past.

That's what is used as a justification... Oh yeah, there's the argument that dead men don't recommit. The idea is that if you kill enough, then the population of murderers would decrease. Then there's the deterrence argument. Didn't work in Florida, bub. Hasn't worked in Texas either, Chump.