What does any prison sentence or punishment accomplish other than punishing the individual and act as a deterrent to acts society has determined to be socially unacceptable? The argument that "killing" is wrong, therefore the death penalty is wrong, is a shallow and mindless argument, at best intellectually dishonest. Locking someone up against their will (kidnapping) is also wrong and a crime, but i haven't seen this used as a rationale to do away with prison. This pathetic analogy places the criminal justice system in the shoes of the criminal and the criminal in the shoes of the victim; it's perverted and idiotic, and I'll not have it in this thread.
Maybe in progressive utopia every piece of crap degenerate rapist murderer can be rehabbed and brought back into the world to cure cancer. Here in real life, 5 people (and a dog, lol), through no fault of their own, were tortured, raped and executed in the most demeaning way imaginable by two depraved heart psychopaths. Justice would seem to afford these two people the most ungodly, abhorrent death imaginable. Instead we've got a collection of nitwit ne'erdowells babbling about PBS and whether or not killing is moral. Get the eff out of here.
