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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Capital punishment is not a deterrent against crime it is punishment for that criminal element and cheaper than housing them for 60 years. We need to cut down appeals to less than 5 years and clean out the cells for new meat.
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While I agree it's a cheaper and more practical option than housing them for 60 years, the idea that it's punishment went out with sword fighting and knickers.
Almost 200 hundred years ago, in Philadelphia, the legal/criminal justice community started to change their thinking from the old world 'draw & quarter' them for revenge and an example to others. They decided they didn't want to become what they had rejected in Europe. It didn't take very long for that position to become accepted.
While I agree that the public is divided, with some feeling it's punishment/revenge/pay back, that's not the official position of the legal/criminal justice community. Since they are running the show, their's is reality while yours and mine are only opinions. That's why we aren't allowed to lynch people, they hate competition.
Personally, the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth, and the ultimate rut is a cell.
And Wesley Cook (Mumia Abu Jamal) is guilty as hell.