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Originally Posted by Kevin
Won't have any effect. My father did a murder case a while back. Got the conviction reversed on appeal and subsequently got an acquittal on the retrial.
I'm against the death penalty for a variety of reasons. Mostly though, because it's not handed out on what I perceive to be an equal or fair basis, i.e., more likely to be given to racial minorities and people of lower socio-economic status.
I look at it like this -- if they couldn't put Terry Nichols to death [co-conspirator for the OKC bombing], then pretty much no one else matches up. Not even close.
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Yeah, I've always wondered about that.
I support the death penalty for some crimes, not because I believe in retribution but because some people are bad for Civilization. Like serial killers, pedophiles, etc. Counciling and rehabilitation never/rarely work so just put the sick bastards out of their misery so that way at least they can't rape or kill any
more people.