Capital Punishment For Murderers

[chezlaw]

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Cmon. That's the same as 4. I thought you were cured of those kinds of replies.


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No, chez is saying tomorrow we might wake up and decide it is hip to kill people who hit one or to outers. Whereas, yesterday I got convicted of murdering the guy who put the bad beat on me.

Chez just likes to [censored] with your head, David.

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Didn't mean to [censor] with his head. Technically DS is correct but people being incorrectly found guilty of a crime is so different from people being correctly found guilty of a crime that to potentially label both as innocent is confusing. No-one who addresses 4) ever includes consideration of innocent people correctly found guilty of a crime.

Such glories in the past have included:
- execution of scared young men in WW1.
- heresy
- saying a bit of fish is good enough for Jehova
- what did a slave have to do?

They're extremes but 5) is an attack on the foundations of state power whereas 4) is usually just about error rates.

imo its 5) that is the reason state execution is profoundly wrong.

chez