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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
Do I have to give up my right wing nutbag membership card now?
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Yes.
If the death penalty is going to exist, it is going to exist for this type of person; this type of crime.
It's silly to say there's any "deterrent" effect in an execution. There is no such thing for real criminals, who aren't typically big on weighing their actions. This is societal revenge, pure and simple.
Is it a better object lesson for children to see someone murder four people and become a kind of low level "activist" or to see his execution as the result of such actions? I think it's the latter.