Re: Send your loved ones to war?
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That's kind of where I come down.
For what it's worth, would you feel better about a candidate who answers the death penalty question with something like:
"I would want him executed. That is precisely why I support dispassionate juries to decide these things. We want cool minds to make these decisions beginning with a dispassionate legislature and ending with an unheated jury. If my son were killed, I hope and pray that our system of justice wouldn't want me deciding the fate of his killer."
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What I think isn't important. I'm not the typical voter. I don't think the typical voter would respond to an answer like that. Its too cold.
Its tough to answer that question in an anti-capital punishment way without seeming like a wimp.
For what its worth, I oppose capital punishment, but my opposition has nothing to do with whether it is right or wrong to punish someone with death.
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