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Originally Posted by MichiganRed
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In my opinion, yes. For any punishment to be effective, it must be severe enough to be a deterrent to the crime. If we, as members of the "civilized" world, are going to pride ourselves in the high regard with which we hold the sanctity of human life and the rights inherent to that life we must make the price for destroying that life so terrible that no one would willingly and carelessly do so.
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I fully agree. If you are willing to break societys "rules" and take a life, then you have no place and no rights in that society. If you want to be treated like a civilised human being, then you must act like one.