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I believe that it's useful. In the past century the death penalty should have only been used in a handful of cases.

It should be for the really "broken" people who are a danger to everyone no matter where they are. Gacy, Dalmer, etc.

Is it murder ? damn right. Do you keep a rabid dog alive because you think it's wrong to kill ?

> It should be for the really "broken" people who are a danger to everyone no matter where they are. Gacy, Dalmer, etc.

Yeah, but it's not. There are plenty of terrifying cases of people who were considered "broken", who were convicted and murdered by the system and later found innocent. Murder has no place in a modern society.

Don't you have prisons where you live? Do you know what a life sentence is? It is possible to have justice without committing the same murderous crimes as the criminals we have to protect the society from.

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