re: Are you for or against the death penalty?

For it.

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It seems like the deterrence argument might carry some merit.

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Definitely deters repeat offending.

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What’s defined as “extreme”?

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Any person who commits violence, actual real physical violence, repeatedly and/or heinously (as in torture, child, sexual+physviolence), terrorism (including social and political terrorist acts), exclusions for plowing into crowds gathered in the streets illegally.

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It certainly 100%, without a doubt prevents them from killing again, doesn't it?

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Versus life without parole?

For it. Some people cannot be rehabilitated into society, and society should not be expected to carry the burden of sustaining their existence for their natural lives.
For those squeamish about the state taking lives, I would accept a modern form of "exile" where the individual is stripped of citizenship, barred for life from entering the United States or reacquiring citizenship, and expelled to another country, if it could be arranged. But expecting hard-working people to pay taxes to sustain these worthless, irredeemable wretches for the rest of their lives is ludicrous.
For those concerned about costs, bullets and rope cost a lot less than sustaining a life for decades. That the courts have barred cost-effective means of execution for no good reason is no reason to accept the notion that "execution costs more than life imprisonment" as anything beyond a legal fiction.

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All the above said, unless the legal regime needlessly ballooning the costs of executing people is not replaced with a more sane alternative, I must begrudgingly acknowledge that life imprisonment is superior to execution given how the system stands right now. So while I am for it on paper, until things change life imprisonment is the less odious option.

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Public execution would definitely have a deterrent effect on capital crime.

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For a normal person it would. For ppl intent on murdering someone it probably would not. Those ppl don’t care.

This question always tears me up........

I'm "for" in the case of a slam dunk case where there is absolutely zero doubt, and it should be done within a month or two of sentencing, and frick all the stupid appeals process' that allows SCUM to breathe oxygen for 20 to 25+ years......

I'm "against" in the case that even if convicted, there is ANY modicum of doubt.......

This question is always a hard one for me. I'm sorry I don't have a better answer.

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Why in the frick would I claim to not trust the government, accuse the government of having a deep state, accuse the government of playing politics with the criminals courts then turn around and say " sure you are trustworthy enough to decide someone should die for a crime???"

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By far the best reason to oppose the death penalty IMO. Should have addressed this line of thought in my earlier post.
Completely agree with your summary at the end. If we're assuming the government actors are fundamentally good people honestly trying to do a good job then I support it all the way. Given the government we have, no way.

Against...I don’t trust government with the power to kill its citizens.

All traitors and people guilty of 1st degree murder should be put to death.