For the most part, I am against the death penalty except in extreme circumstances.
With the advance of things like DNA testing helping to free innocent men, it makes me wonder if we've ever executed an innocent man. If so, that's one of the greatest injustices a society can inflict.
I find it funny that people who would defend the rights of an unborn fetus want to be the first to pull the switch in a case like this...
People feel that putting someone they view as a worse human than them to death somehow makes them feel they are bettering society and makes them feel like justice is served. Vengeance is not justice. Justice means we might have a few guilty men go free, but that's better than even one innocent man being wrongfully put to death.
Yeah, it sucks seeing guys use the appeals system to tie up courts for years and play the system, but it would be even worse to deny all appeals and start executing people, especially people who can't afford decent legal help (remember, OJ didn't walk because he's black, he walked because he's rich...when he walked, it shouldn't ben black people celebrating, it should have been the rich and famous).
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