Large-scale drug dealers to be murdered by US government?

[John Galt]

[Philly]

Galt, would you really have every murder conviction carry a death penalty? I mean, we even have different degrees that people can be charged with because of the well accepted legal premise that not all killings are the same.

[John Galt]

[Spider]

Galt, you're correct about definitions of terms. Always depressing when words get redefined to serve an ideology or preconception via connotation, but there are still just too many people wrongly convicted and later exonerated. Too many people railroaded by cops and lawyers and judges to make it worthwhile. A single innocent executed isn't worth even a thousand guilties.

[John Galt]

That's a fair point (and thank you for the kind words) but my refutation of that is simply, you can't give back people the life they missed out on either. Many states don't even give them a dime if they are exonerated (or the sentence vacated because of some screw up... Even if they are truly guilty). And what's really great about the death penalty here is that they have unlimited appeals unlike the poor chumps wasting decades behind bars and never leave purgatory.

I think the problem you have is a problem with the standard of guilt, which is a separate issue in my mind to the moral imperative for a state to execute murderers.

[exploited]

*Galt desperately tries not to be a barbarian after admitting to being a barbarian*

[phosphide]

You f**k tits. Get the f**k out of here with this holier than thou I want to actually care about a human life bullshit.

[exploited]

The thing is that you and your brother are too stupid to be considered barbarians, as you don't have the mental fitness to make moral decisions in the first place. So don't worry about it.

[exploited]

[Philly]

Galt is giving a new meaning to originalism.