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judy

(1,942 posts) Sat May 3, 2014, 12:16 PM May 2014

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Enough already with the death penalty!

Abolished in all civilized countries...a barbaric normalization of revenge and killing...
Great article by Eugene Robinson:
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/eugene-robinson-the-gruesome-inhumanity-of-the-death-penalty
It is a stain on all of us...

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Enough already with the death penalty! (Original Post) judy May 2014 OP

The death penalty justifies murder. What it says is it's OK to kill someone if they did a certain grahamhgreen May 2014 #1

But killing IS ok under certain circumstances JJChambers May 2014 #2

Society decided lots of things long ago that it has since rejected. morningfog May 2014 #3

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)

1. The death penalty justifies murder. What it says is it's OK to kill someone if they did a certain

Reply to judy (Original post)

Sat May 3, 2014, 12:30 PM

May 2014

thing. The same rationale used by murderers.

JJChambers

(1,115 posts)

2. But killing IS ok under certain circumstances

Reply to grahamhgreen (Reply #1)

Sat May 3, 2014, 12:33 PM

May 2014

Society decided that long ago. Self defense, war, etc.

morningfog

(18,115 posts)

3. Society decided lots of things long ago that it has since rejected.

Reply to JJChambers (Reply #2)

Sat May 3, 2014, 01:08 PM

May 2014

More to the point, thought, self-defense and war are not like capital punishment. There is no exigency in the death penalty.

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