Reply #61: The Real Issue [View All]

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It is true enough that judges and people in court should not fear for their lives from violent people, but the same should hold true for the rest of society. I take no comfort that such a person could hide out for 24 hours and our fellow citizens are at risk from such criminals every day(much more so than our judges). The theme here should be curbing violence in general. There are some 16,000 murders a year in this country.

The death penalty does not solve this problem and can be shown to exacerbate it. Do we really want to give the state permission to kill people. The next thing you know they'll be sending people to kill others as a political stategy.