Gil, get to MSN if you want to discuss this, we don't want this locked nor filled with the usual uber- and occasionally nonintellectual and politically incorrect stuff from those convo's :P
No one deserves death. We're all shocked about the death of a little girl but the death of a grown man lets us cold? We are hypocrites indeed - life has value and that someone fails to see that does not mean their life is valueless.
Anyone propagating death punishment, as far as I'm concerned, needs to doublecheck his or her morality. If the justice-system works, the murderer will be locked away for (most of) life.
Actually, an Egyptian nephew of mine was murdered. He was 22 and shot straight in the head when he looked over an edge where some terrorists were hiding during a police patrol. I never wanted the murderers dead, although they were all shot in the consequent chase. They didn't deserve that, they deserved a life in prison.
So, murder, does mean they should be locked away, even though, as a friend of mine likes to say, "a life imprisonment costs thousands of dollars of taxmoney... 10 bullets cost $2,50". 47 years sounds pretty appropriate. Again, one might argue 47 years is not the same as the 80 years he has possibly destroyed, but then again, all he has done in life has been for naught now, and he has no prospects left besides to regret his actions.
That, to me, sounds as punishment, instead of relief. Killing someone makes us killers - and that is never good, not for 'good' or 'evil'. Death is, to emphasize my game-roots, Beyond Good & Evil.
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