Poll: Majority of Canadians support death penalty for murder - eviltoast
  • x4740N@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I never will support the death penalty

    A lot of innocent people found wrongfully guilty have been killed by it and people are people, what are you going to get from retribution by murdering another person

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Better a million guilty people serve a life sentence than one innocent person be mistakenly executed. The state shouldn’t be in the business of handing out punishments that can’t be overturned later.

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        8 months ago

        Better to ruin the lives of a million people than to take the life of one?

        You’re going to have to provide some serious philosophy to back that up.

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          8 months ago

          Killing innocent people is bad.

          Keeping guilty people in prison isn’t that bad.

          Boom. Philosophized.

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            8 months ago

            Somehow I missed that you qualified those two groups as innocent and guilty.