・quoting Orpheus
・quoting French Toast
Killing people: Bad!
If you really hate someone enough to kill them, lock 'em up in a prison for life. It's worse.
For who? The asswipes who hand out rights to every Tom,Dick and Harry have made prison a shadow of what it once was. I agree that not every offense is death worthy, but those that there is NO DOUBT at all should be gone. I do not want one once of my tax dollars supporting them. I would sooner give my money to a church, and thats a concept I absolutely despise.
Anyway, there are some who deserve it. No amount of mushy mouthing it away will alter that.
Good to "see" you! 
And now to disagree... 
it is my understanding that it actually costs less to support a criminal for their whole life in prison than it does to go through the process of obtaining the death penalty... I don't know where I heard that, and I've no idea if it's true, but it seems like a point that is worth looking into. In general, I'm not in favor of the death penalty for one simple reason: what if you make a mistake? s**t happens, and sometimes innocent people get convicted. Death is such a... permanent punishment. If at some point down the road it is proved you didn't do it, they can't exactly release you!
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Now that I've read the rest of the thread... I'd say the revenge, whatever form it takes, is always bad whether there is death involved or not. The question is, how do you separate revenge from justice when they are so often intimately intertwined? in general, justice is done by an impartial third party, but that can be kind of hard to find in international relations.
