(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

I've stayed mostly out of this because I'm actually conflicted about
the death penalty.

I'm against it at a gut level, but ...

What do you do with someone who is in jail for life and commits a
brutal murder there? You can't exactly give him another life sentence.

2012/4/12 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:
> That's all very well, Marc, but except in a very limited number of cases
> society can't be sure the person is really guilty, and laws aren't made for
> a very limited number of cases. For some, the issue may be the ethics of
> killing a murderer; for most, the issue is the ethics of killing a potential
> innocent just for the kicks of avenging blood with blood.
>
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes