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13 August 2004

And This is Why I'm Against the Death Penalty 

Wrongfully convicted man set free after more than 40 years in prison. What if, you know? Anyway, the death penalty is just as worse as murdering someone; sentencing someone to die puts you on the same level as the convicted, and the whole point about the legal system is that the criminal is tried by (reasonably) sane, law-abiding citizens, not some other criminals. I know very well that emotions may lead us to say "he deserves to be hanged", but that is not up to us to decide, anyway. Hatred is much too easy a trap to fall into and sometimes one has to struggle in order to get out of there, but in order for the civilised society to continue we can't fall into these traps time and time again as it makes us just as bad as the offenders in question. I'm sure they'll come back as sewage rats or something when they're reborn; there's a bit of comfort in that. ;-)

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