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Originally posted by clemsontiger09:
just out of curiousity, how can a state justify not having a death penalty? so basically go to one of them, kill someone and you spend the rest or four life behind bars.......free food and living?
If you call living in a cell with TV living...so be it.

How can a state justify HAVING a death penalty?

The death penalty serves only one purpose - revenge. It does NOT act as a deterrent. If it did, why does the population on death row continue to grow?

From 688 in 1980 to 3314 in 2004.
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"Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced" - Thomas Jefferson, moral relativist