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There are a lot of people who deserve to die. I just don't trust human justice systems to get it right all the time, and to know that innocent people will inevitably be executed is far more offensive to any decent person than knowing that not all lovely people get their just deserts. Besides, the death penalty is extremely expensive to administer, and ineffective as a deterrent. Advocates of the death penalty harp on the revenge factor, but bare revenge shouldn't be a part of any penal system.
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What is your distinction between revenge and retribution? And, divorced from deterrence, what societal good does retribution advance? If you think retribution in itself is a valid policy goal, where and how do you draw a line between lethal injection and burning at the stake? A major difference between the death penalty and a prison sentence is that only one can be corrected.
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