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Get Rid of the Death Penalty, Get Rid of Plea Bargains

Chris from Kalifornia Wrote: Sep 24, 2012 10:47 AM
No one should ever be sentenced to life without parole. What's the point? A life without parole sentence says that person cannot ever be released into society again, that the person is to dangerous to be with regular people. Keeping them in prison is a waste of money. It's not punishment. Punishment is supposed to teach you right from wrong. "Life without Parole" says you cannot learn. Someone who cannot learn right from wrong has no business being kept alive at taxpayer's expense. The death penalty says the same thing. If there is proof beyond a shadow of a doubt, all the appeals should be abolished and the person removed permanently from society. If the criminal is dead, they can never ever hurt anyone else.
Chris from Kalifornia Wrote: Sep 24, 2012 10:51 AM
BTW, all those who want to hurt the criminal during the execution, those who want to see them "fry" are guilty of wanting revenge. Revenge is wrong. What is right is executing them in the most painless way possible. The whole point of killing them is not punishment, should not be revenge, it's protecting society from any further crimes by that person.

Recently, editorial page editor John Diaz asked Mark Klaas whether he expects to feel closure if California executes Richard Allen Davis, the man who kidnapped, toyed with and then killed Klaas' 12-year-old daughter, Polly, in 1993. A jury found Davis guilty and sentenced him to death in 1996.
From the early days after Davis snatched Polly from a Petaluma slumber party, Klaas has been a highly visible advocate for strong laws to protect the public, especially children, from career criminals and predators like Davis. He had come to the San Francisco Chronicle with other opponents of Proposition 34, the...

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