I'm not making a case for or against the death penalty here.
My point hearkens back to this thread:
http://tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=12296496
where Youtube made the police take down a video plea asking for help identifying the perpetrators of a vicious crime caught on a surveillance camera. Several guys had sexually assaulted a woman in an alley when she stepped out from a nightclub. Her boyfriend came out a little later and they threw him down on the cobblestones... his head barely missing the curb as he went down and they began kicking him. His girlfriend went over to try to help him and they beat her and threw her onto the cobblestones as well.
They both went to the hospital.
Tigrrrr! wondered what was wrong with Youtube for making the police remove the video & plea for help...
and pickle cheered Youtube for doing so.
http://tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=12296658
good for YouTube (nm)
pickle felt that "putting them in a cage" would be an unnecessary infringement of the rights of the perpetrators:
http://tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=12296825
and in discussing this philosophy you jumped in to defend pickle here:
http://tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=12298049
force used after the fact is retribution, not compensation.
force used to defend oneself is justified.
seems very clear to me.
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This is yet another example of where I think "retribution" is called for. People who commit vicious crimes often need to be put in jail for their offenses... or "put in cages" as you like to call it.
Edited by JeffB at 20:26:01 on 08/21/16