This is why I'm for the death penalty.

[Bedreviter]

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and it sends a weird message ("listen children, its wrong to kill so sometimes when people do it we kill them")

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Yeah, just as it is hard to explain to kids that kidnapping is wrong, as "kidnappers who take the freedom away from other people will have their own freedom taken away from them by us/the government as we put them in prison for a certain period of time (usually far longer than the time the kidnapper took away the freedom of the kidnapee)"?