04-05-2011, 04:33 PM
(04-04-2011, 11:56 PM)username Wrote: 138 people who were on death row have been exonerated since the death penalty was re-instituted. That's a significant number to me. I'd rather lock them up, throw away the key, force them in to hard labor and then *oops* if we find out they were innocent, at least we didn't kill them. That's kinda..irreversible.
You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs (frying innocent people with a mental age of 7).
I'm for the death penalty but I think the electric chair is too messy, give me a Pierrepoint weighted dead drop hanging any day. Clunk, snap, dead.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.