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Most of the Libertarians I know feel that the death penalty is a just punishment for certain crimes such as the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a small girl and burning her body in the desert. But this should ONLY happen when there can't be a doubt. There would have to be more than just witnesses, there would have to be DNA evidence, video tape of the crime, etc.
But then again, most of the Libertarians I know also have no faith what-so-ever in our government to determine whether someone is guilty or not given the failure of the government in almost every single thing they do so most don't trust the government with something like the death penalty.
So those Libertarians I've been mentioning (which includes myself) do agree that death is an appropriate punishment, we don't trust the government enough to allow them to be in charge of something like this for the obvious abuses that could and probably do happen with such power.
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01-06-2003, 11:00 PM
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