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To: one_less who wrote (783003)	5/1/2014 1:29:35 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577931

1) It is your opinion life in prison is just as bad. How about we let the convicted decide? 2) What about all the innocent people we execute by accident? 3) I don't think it registered that there is usually some sort of mental illness involved in killers. 4) It is a bad habit to be killing people. We need to always try to be humane and understanding and we do a terrible job of it, so it is important to err on the side of humanity. << It is easy to say life is a more humane solution but that is only because we don’t have to deal with the person as a member. Forgiveness and mercy is a resolute determination that is so entangled with the personal elements of heinous crime that no management of the perpetrator of a heinous crime can satisfy these issues. Therefore, it is no more just to say the death penalty lacks mercy and forgiveness than it is to say that withholding death as a consequence is merciful and forgiving. There is no reason I can think of as to why you think revenge is the foundation upon which a death penalty must be determined. I don't think of the death penalty as anything but resolute, while allowing society to move on with the confidence that such level of crime (heinous) will not be tolerated.