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In reply to the discussion: DEATH PENALTY I taught a peace and justice class this morning [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I don't like it. It doesn't deter people from committing crimes.
Sometimes people convicted of capital crimes are later found innocent. Not just "not guilty", but innocent
And yet...
There's still a part of me that feels, if the crime is heinous enough AND the evidence is rock solid, I'm not exactly going to root FOR it, but I'm not going to get all weepy for the condemned, either.
Also, I try to imagine myself in the shoes of people whose family members have been murdered.
If they feel like the DP is appropriate, who the hell am I to tell them they would have no right to feel the way they do..."liberal" or not...
Yeah, it's so goddamned easy for us to sit here on our asses saying that no true Liberal should ever want the DP if it's someone else's loved ones who had the most horrible things done to them.
I'm not going to judge someone else's heart as long as I don't...and hopefully never will...understand what that loss and pain must be like. And so, for that reason, this is not a black/white issue for me.