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I have always advocated the DP when, and ONLY when, guilt is absolutely proven. The case of Colin Ferguson comes to mind. He killed six innocent people in front of a railroad car full of eyewitnesses. That should have been enough to invoke the DP.
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I have no problem with the DP in circumstances like that.
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society removes the trash within it
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While I don't
advocate for the death penalty, I do allow that there are times it's appropriate. Murder is a willful rejection of the rules that maintain a peaceful society. When a person murders another, they are showing an absolute disregard for human life. That makes them unfit for living in our society. Once we could exile them. That's no longer an option. So we exile them to a place from which no one has ever come back to harm one of us again. It's not a balancing of the scales, it's not revenge. It's removing from our midst those who show an absolute lack of respect for other human beings. There is nowhere to safely
store such human waste. It has to be eliminated.