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Originally posted by AlphaGamDiva
here's the way i perceive the death penalty: yes, it is a punishment for those who have killed and given up their basic human right to life. when you take the life of an innocent human being, IMHO, you have lost your right to be alive. that's also why i am so pro-life b/c i believe the life of an innocent is so important. but this is just what I believe, and am pretty sure it follows repub thoughts. preserve life....innocent life...i know there are flaws in every system (repubs have issues within the accuracy, etc of the death penalty, and dems have issues within the welfare system, for example), but i would much rather pay tax money on someone who deserves to die's execution than pay the prison's cable bill.
i also think that those who are anti-death penalty need to put themselves in a victim's family's shoes. plus you also have to look at protecting other citizens by keeping someone from killing again. take a look at the 11yr old girl from sarasota who's body was just found. how many times had that guy been in and out of jail? it doesn't hurt my feelings for some murderer to get what he deserves, but it does waste my tax dollars to keep a killer in prison.
--now that that's been said, let's please not turn this into a death penalty thread...i was merely responding to s&s's statements. i'm sure there are plenty of death penalty threads out there, i just don't wanna take the time to look them up. 
as far as your post dionysus, "even on the playing field"? we all need to be equal? yikes. that's where we differ a LOT, i guess. lol  some ppl just deserve to be where they are, whether that's at the top, or at the bottom. ppl should def be given opportunities, just not hand-outs. that kind of utopia won't ever exist as ppl don't all have the same work ethic. correct me, fellow repubs, if i am wrong in joining that thought with repub ideals.
hope no one took me as being nasty....just trying to explain the thought processes just as i want the democrats to express their party's ideals. i'm sure someone else can be more eloquent than i am about stating all this, but there it is. try not to flame me to death b/c i wasn't trying to flame anyone one here.
nuthin but love for gc dems!
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Remember for just one second that the death penalty isn't fullproof and innocent people have been sentenced to it before. Some of these people lived while some did not.
So what happens if a state executes someone who happened to be innocent of the crime they were being killed for? Who is to blame then? The state? The person that "pulled the plug"? I mean ifyou think about, the person that would have illed this innocent person was basically killing them for that very same reason to begin with - taking the life of another innocent human being.
As for the religious side of things, isn't the death penalty a form of retribution and/or vengeance that shouldn't be used as a form of punishment? (This is not relating to all religions of course.)
And I just don't understand the fact that a certain person (no matter the party or politics) could be pro-life and also pro-death penalty. It's almost like save one "life" but take away another and it just doesn't make sense to me....who knows.
To answer the original question of the thread, I don't think there's anything really bad about Republicans. I mean, there are some good-hearted ones out there and there are some that are not so much. The same goes for Democrats too.