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Originally Posted by Plethon
However, I think that death penalty should be punishment only for deliberate murder.
Any attempt to expand it to other kinds of crimes should be stopped in the very beginning.
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I've been following this thread for a few days but have hesitated to post as my own feelings on the subject are ambivalent. The following kind of situation is fairly common in the USA: a carload of negroes (often high on some chemical substance) goes to a petrol station or grocery shop, and ends up in a killing spree. Usually this is not premeditated but depends on mood and opportunity. What to do with such people other than simply kill them? Keeping them in prison costs about $37,000 a year per person. Why should the taxpayer pay for their upkeep when there's zero chance of their rehabilitation? I feel the same about rapists.
My ambivalence comes from two sources. The first is that innocent people often end up getting killed by the state (as I think Amnesty reports on the US indicate). The second is that this kind of punitive measure -- though deserved in my opinion -- doesn't tackle the festering problems of a multi-racial USA. The response of the US authorities to a negro underclass has simply been to build a miniature gulag system. Close to one in a hundred people in the US are imprisoned, which is four or five times higher than any other industrialised country. One in three blacks has either been imprisoned, is imprisoned, or will end up in prison.