Reply #56: People getting executed had a choice to do whatever got them into that situation [View All]

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(Assuming they really were guilty of the crime of which they were convicted, of course.)

People who commit the kind of crimes that result in the death penalty actually DO have a choice in the matter. They can choose to not commit murder.

(Some opponents of abortion might say that women choose to engage in the behavior that results in unwanted pregnancy. However, those of us in the real world know that women don't always have a choice, that they may be in an abusive or controlling relationship or may be raped, or there may be a simple failure of birth control. So I think maybe that's one way it's possible for someone to be pro-choice and pro-death penalty--that and the idea that the state shouldn't dictate what goes on inside a woman's own body.)