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[António Pedro Marques]

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (12-04-2012 17:09):
> I've stayed mostly out of this because I'm actually conflicted about
> the death penalty.
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> I'm against it at a gut level, but ...
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> 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.

There's solitary confinement.

> 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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