Not-That-Bright said:
Well there is a difference between killing a foetus, which has done... nothing wrong, and killing a rapist who sodomised little girls then drove around the countryside wearing their skin.
But i don't think the death penalty is right, for other reasons.
of course there is. The death penalty...I'm not for or against it, really there are a number of pros and cons for it. In the US it's not at all a resource/cost efficient method of punishment....they sit there in jail all day, which is quite expensive, and can appeal right up to the day they're supposed to be executed, it doesn't seem just or fair to the victim, not the mention the taxpayers who fund the system...and the moral issues associated with it are tricky. But then again some people do deserve to be shot, including a number of ppl on this forum
in third world countries, of course, they just take the criminal out and shoot him/her within a set time confine, I think it's a fortnight in China? so cost efficient, but the rights of the offender don't get much attention.
I'm glad they abolished it in Australia though.