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Originally Posted by DaveE
Rick, do you think that killing a police officer should net a stiffer sentence than killing a regular citizen?
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No. They should both be capital offenses. But I'd rather have killing a cop get a stiffer sentence than killing a minority. At least the cop wrap would not be based on race. Anyway, cop killers have a strange habit of not making it to trial. Murder is murder and should be punished by death. Race should not even be mentioned in the report or trial. In fact, the only time I can think of when race should ever be used as a detrmining factor is in organ transplants, where ethnicity really does sometimes matter in whether a donor is a match for a recipient. Otherwise, it has no place in society and certainly not in law.