Re: Comment on this statement relating to crime and punishment
The SCOTUS has upheld the legality of the death penalty in this country, correct? Well, what purpose does it serve? Especially when you consider that the offender would be no longer be a threat to society anyhow (assuming lifetime imprisonment)? Do we not already kill innocents through the death penalty?
In my estimation, what I propose is far far far less severe than the death penalty, which, as you know, is currently legal and practiced in our country. If what I propose violates our fundamental judicial tenets, then why doesn't the death penalty?
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