You sound like Karl Rove.

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Entertainment value. When they trot him out every ten years on 60 minutes, his appearance and sound bites has us all talking for days.
I could be wrong, but I think he's referring to the 1% doctrine

But in reverse. That is saying it's better to kill innocent people than to let a guilty one live.

That's exactly the type of thing Karl would say. An emotional slogan/sound bite that takes paragraphs to dispute. But you get just one from me.

The problem with you socialist pinko commies, is everything has to be squeezed into one-size-fits-all rules. It's a big country, and the population is diverse. What is right for NYC may not be right for Bumfuck, KS. What's right for a molested youth, may not be right for Charles Manson.

But, what's right for Manson is also "right", by law, for someone mistakenly thought to be Manson.

Usually because it is less expensive than the death penalty, or so I've heard.

"...less expensive than the death penalty..."
 

Only 'cause so much horseshit is folded into the 'process' by way of appeals and humanitarian treatment of the guilty*.

The act itself -- one gun, one bullet, one hand to pull the trigger -- is almost negligible in cost.

One thing, however: the State may 'try and convict', but it should be the aggrieved (family/friends or victim, if he or she lives) who pulls the trigger.

Never lobby for an irrevocability you yourself aren't willing to enact.

In other words: don't clamor for 'death' if you can't deliver it.









*see the latter part of the 'he/she' thread for an example of prison(er) absurdity.