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Kickaha
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Join Date: May 2004
 
2004-08-08, 16:57

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Originally Posted by Mass Appeal
Unfortunately some of those "animals" we've killed turned out later to be innocent. Oops.
Yup. Just like many people we've jailed have later turned out to be innocent. It's a problem with the system, not the punishment. You can no more give someone back 20 years of their life, than you can bring them back from the dead. The entire anti-death-penalty argument that we might kill an innocent person is a red herring IMNSHO. Don't fight the punishment, fight the crappy system... then the punishment will be meted out when appropriate, and in that case I have zero problem with it. It's too bad we don't have penal colonies anymore, but in the absence of such, eliminate them outright.
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