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I haven't finished reading all the posts on the second page of this thread, but I wanted to make one small comment.
I don't know how anyone else would feel if a close friend, family member or loved one were randomly killed but I know that I would be so enraged that I would seek the highest punishment the law allowed. I admit, it doesn't solve much by killing another person i.e. doesn't bring back the loved one, HOWEVER I feel that once you've committed such a brutal crime, you've lost your right to live any normal life.
At any rate, my theory is this - If the above happened to me I would try to forgive with all my heart, but forgiving only goes so far and that doesn't mean forgiveness means letting that person live either. Obviously that person had no regard for life and would probably do the same if allowed to go free. Now wether a person sits in a cell and rots to death the rest of his/her life or dies in the chair or smoke chaimber - they deserve it.
I ask those who aren't pro-death penalty to think how they'd feel if their mother, father, sister, brother, grandma, child, best friend, lover, co-worker were killed malitiously by one of these crazed people...what sort of justification would you want? I find it hard for even the most compassionate people to not want some sort of revenge!
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