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The death penalty
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The death penalty I have problems with people who claim to be pro life, but only for cute babies. In theory old people, ugly people and people of a different race than you also deserve life. If you believe all lives matter then you cannot pick and choose the lives to respect. So the<b> death </font></b>penalty does not make sense. If we are all sinners then we all should deserve the<b> death </font></b>sentence at some point and some time. If we are all redeemable then no one should be executed. People do not seem able to shed prejudices. So all human judgments are affected prejudices. People cannot forget race differences, ethnic differences and gender differences. Celebrity status alone warps the idea of justice. In theory equal treatment the law is the rule. But in reality the rich and famous get treated much better than a normal person. Despite lots of evidence OJ Simpson was not convicted of two murders. A computer would not be subject to human bias. But would people be willing to take a computer deciding their fate? Not very likely. The<b> death </font></b>penalty is also very expensive to operate and still makes many mistakes. Hundreds of people have been exonerated from<b> death </font></b>rows DNA testing usually. Death penalty advocates have to accept repeated errors mean innocent people are killed the state. How can a moral person accept idiocy? Another problem is many who do evil acts do not get the<b> death </font></b>penalty, like the Manson killers, while others do. Frequently a minority who kills a white person of higher social status gets the<b> death </font></b>penalty while a white who kills a minority does not. Social class and wealth should not decide whether you get the<b> death </font></b>penalty, but in reality these may determine the fate of the accused. Many still support a<b> death </font></b>penalty despite the problems of trying to have a fair system run error prone people. Those who see the system in action are not willing to have their fate decided this system. Fear of the judge and jury forces many to plead guilty to avoid a trial risking a<b> death </font></b>sentence. So some innocent people are coerced into pleading guilty to avoid risking a false<b> death </font></b>verdict. So much for human rights. |
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People claim to be in favor of life, yet support the flawed death penalty. Not sensible.
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The racial bias comes out in death penalty verdicts when juries decide the fate of low social economic defendants accused of killing high social status white victims.
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