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Final loss of faith...

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The death penalty is about retributive justice, not revenge. Retribution must be proportional to the crime that was committed and it must be directed at the person who did it. Killing a person's family because he stole your car would be revenge. Capital punishment isn't that.
 
sucks man, I am sorry.

I had a college friend murdered May 1991 at a gas station in Ft Worth.

Guy got the death penalty but died in prison from a heart attack. Karma is a bitch. And your friend's killer will get his, in this life or the next. Don't let the bitterness bring you down.
 
A couple of members of my class in college were murdered. One guy was never caught, and at this point almost certainly never will be. No justice there. The other murderer was apprehended. Baltimore City never seeks the death penalty, but he was looking at life w/o parole. He ended up pleading guilty in exchange for straight life (meaning he'll be eligible for parole one day) although in Maryland parole for lifers is extremely rare. Hopefully he'll rot in prison until the day he dies.
 
JulesMaximus said:
I don't disagree with you, I was just pointing out how small a percentage of the annual budget those figures actually are. People like to point out these huge numbers (and they are huge to you and I) but I just want everyone to know that they are actually very very small when compared to the $137 billion the state spends every year (that was for 2008-2009 by the way).

As for the death penalty I have mixed feelings on it and honestly, seeing as how it appears to be quite a bit less expensive to keep them in prison for life I'd rather do that than spend 10 times that amount to kill them.
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This is so fucking rational that I honestly have no idea why this isn't the only argument out there.

When you add in that DP doesn't deter crime, seems like a no-brainer.
 
the only really compelling rational argument I've heard in favor of the death penalty is as a bargaining chip -- ie: confess and save the state a bunch of trial costs and we'll take the death penalty off the table.
 
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