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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Comes Out Against Abolishing The Death Penalty [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)And that is the fundamental ethical gap between those that make excuses for State sponsored murder, and those that are against it.
The idea that a human, whether a judge or jury, and helped out by a sensationalist press, who decide to premeditatively kill another human, in your name,..this is a universal question. You cannot parse that with ...well at least we don't do to "X". What about the various mentally ill, or those that others have confessed to their crimes but are victims of career hungry prosecutors. Violence begets violence. If the State leads by example and condones premeditated taking of human life, it seeps into the national conscience. Its all about revenge, which ends up being hollow, and nothing to do with deterrence.
Either you believe human life is sacro-saint, or you don't.