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Originally Posted by temujin77
I think they should still be executed if they are found to be guilty and found to be deserving of that punishment. It is the principle of the matter. I don't want the next generations asking us "grandpa, how come you guys let a terrible criminal like _______ get away with it?"
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I thoroughly respect your opinion, Pete. Perhaps it's my personal discomfort with the death penalty in general that's speaking, but the image of getting an 85-90 year old man out of his wheelchair, carrying him up the gallows steps, and holding him up while the noose is tightened around his neck and the trapdoor is sprung seems rather distasteful to me on a gut level. Of course I recognize that is a thoroughly emotional response on my part, and that's why it's best that I have never been a "policy maker".