03-31-2011, 04:50 PM
(03-31-2011, 11:19 AM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: I don't view the death penalty as revenge.
I see it as the 100% most effective way of the ensuring the offender in question never reoffends.
Murderers do get released/escape and commit more crimes.
You can't reoffend if you're dead.
That sums up my opinion, quite nicely.
As to the possibility of "innocents" being put to death . . . I am more concerned about the countless innocents who have lost their lives due to the actions of criminal monsters.
Our judicial system is like prescription drugs . . . the existence of possibility serious and fatal side effects.
I can live with a 1 in 10,000 chance.
And a damn good lawyer.