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I favor the death penalty in cases of murder, which can be proven beyond any doubt whatsoever, and in which there is no evidence of a strong emotional basis (ie crimes of passion). Imo, if you can kill in cold blood, without having any reason to do so, besides just your desire to kill and maim, then you forfeit your humanity card when you commit the act.
In general I strongly support it!
but thats going by a perfect world and perfect standards which we do not have.
Similar to like Lizzy said, not a crime of passion but in cold blood simply because that person is mentally broken, and say theres video, DNA and witness evidence. Yes I have no problem with the death penalty. I would even extend it to rape/child crimes in some cases.
But again the issue is with the system of guilt/innocence, NOT the punishment.
For me I can easily justify the punishment but defending the process of innocence/guilt isnt not always easy.
Also on another side note, while we should not be botching executions things do happen and its not a reason to scrap everything.