While living in Texas, one of the few things I admired about the state was their use of the death penalty. One of the most powerful arguments for the death penalty is that ‘the system’ has fail safes in place and ‘no innocent person has ever been executed.’ Texas has shed innocent blood. The man’s fatal crime was being too poor to afford competent legal counsel. Can someone remind me why we still have the death penalty?
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Revenge. Some people seems to need it, and they need very close to them. The real problem is when that kind of people are in the place where the law is made.
I live in a place where there is no -legal- death penalty even in war time. And I like it. Anyone who thinks that the prison is not enough punishment should visit a prison. Just as a visitor. Just once. I did.