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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (797471)	7/27/2014 1:39:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578613

I understand how life in prison is an alternative to the Capital Punishment. I have explained to you that it is also a death penalty as you are determining the conditions of death for the heinous criminal (death in prison). My issue with Capital Punishment is the killing of someone who is subdued and does not present an eminent threat. I have not espoused revenge as a justification for Capital Punishment, In fact I have gone to great lengths to offer you an explanation as to how revenge for any crime should never be a factor in the Judicial system. So you are just lying to provoke something in me when you suggest I support any kind of revenge as just. You have still not explained how life in prison for Ted Bundy is just, you simply declared that it is. Do you not understand the criteria needed to qualify something as a just outcome? Hint: It has to be more than declaring it an alternative.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (797471)	7/27/2014 3:10:22 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578613

The death penalty as espoused by you is a reactionary and barbaric form of revenge, not justice. I'm against the death penalty, not because it's unjust, but because as it's currently impelemented here, it takes decades to kill anyone. There are way too many humans on Earth, so the death penalty could be a good thing. My death penalty would have the judge pull a pistol after sentencing and shoot the convicted in the head. Done and done. The jury would see the result of their verdict. Televise verdict "execution" nationwide. America would see us executing mostly black men.