07-03-2018, 02:26 PM
(07-03-2018, 02:16 PM)michaelsean Wrote: If the death penalty doesn't do those things, then neither does life in prison.
But if life in prison is unjustly applied, then you have more time to correct the injustice. Also, I don't agree with life in prison except in extreme circumstances. But one step at a time.
(07-03-2018, 02:16 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Were the people who wrote the Constitution against the death penalty? If they weren't, then it's hard to say the death penalty runs counter to what we stood for 230 years ago.
I know that Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and Madison all opposed the death penalty and took measures to limit its use if not eliminate it entirely. It'd be hard to get a poll of all of the framers, but there was a substantial number of them that included some of the more influential thinkers in the group that formed the basis for our government that were opposed to it.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
