Comments on: Against the Death Penalty 2009/10/20/against-the-death-penalty/ London MEP European Parliament Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:54:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: atymins13 2009/10/20/against-the-death-penalty/#comment-5579 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:28:39 +0000 ?p=3993#comment-5579 The death penalty is very unnecessary. Thanks for writing this article, because it seems lobbying against capital punishment hasn’t been as vocal as before. I hate to leave links, but I just wrote this article examining flawed arguments in favor of the death penalty.
http://southpawreport.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/3-arguments-against-capital-punishment/

]]> By: notesofasexiststayathomefather 2009/10/20/against-the-death-penalty/#comment-1871 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:02:31 +0000 ?p=3993#comment-1871 I am against the death penalty, but mainly because life in prison is the superior option. I would like to see the EU and other anti-death penalty organizations focus on promoting life in prison. This would, in effect, move to eliminate the death penalty. Like the semantics of the abortion debate, where everyone is pro life and choice, but differences remain concerning abortion…society should find less polarizing methods to debate the death penalty.

And where is Amnesty when horrible miscarriages of justice occur, such as the Scotland Lockerbie bomber’s release and return to Algeria or the Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman being given conjugal visits and marrying while incarcerated in Peru. Life in prison allows the innocent to have a chance of overturning their sentence, but also guarantees that the worst of the worst stay in prison and never have a chance to harm others. It also sets a concrete message to the world. And life in prison cannot give absurd privileges. Amnesty expresses outrage about the execution of even the obviously guilty, but are less concerned about issues with greater human weight. Change focus, that’s all I’m saying.

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