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Okay then, why not a life sentence as an alternative to all crimes that warrant capital punishment.
As I said in another post. Sorry Jimmy's family and friends not only did this scumbag kill little Jimmy, now you get to support this scumbag for the rest of his life, you get to pay for that scumbag's medical care, food, housing, library, rat lawyer that may try to help him weasel out of his punishment, sex change operation(in some states), weight room, security and other things." Its seems like adding insult to injury to the victims,the victim's loved ones and other honest law abiding citizens forcing them to basically support those scum for the rest of their lives behind bars.
Do you see no hypocrisy in the system here?
For it to be hypocritical the scumbag on death row would have to be innocent like his victim.
Levels of social tolerance toward certain issues are changing every single day; in 1607, the persecution of people of Sub Saharan African descent as slaves were seen as something tolerable. The maltreatment of a black man then would not warrant as heavy a punishment as it would have now. Then, who are you to say that we got it right this time?
Those are not related to capital punishment of today.
You think things like murder, treason, and other heinous crimes are contemporary social boundaries?Why prosecute criminals on the basis of contemporary social boundaries,