In a last attempt to save DinoDoc's thread from total trolldom, here's a death penalty thread.
I advocate it.
Bear in mind that the death penalty is not mandated for all murder convictions.
It is presented as an option
As a representative case, let me reach back in time and use the Charles Manson Family as an example.
Texas leads the United States, easily, in executions.
I'm doubtful that any of the family (Charles Watson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkle, Squeaky Fromme, and whomever else I may be forgetting at the moment) or Charlie himself, would have been executed in Texas.
In California, the death penalty was given out, but later overturned and life sentences assessed.
The death penalty is reserved for the most evil of people
who have committed the most heinous (villainous; wicked; hateful) of crimes.
Those of which there is no hope of rehabilitation.
It is an option, not a required penalty.
Take over.
I advocate it.
Bear in mind that the death penalty is not mandated for all murder convictions.
It is presented as an option
As a representative case, let me reach back in time and use the Charles Manson Family as an example.
Texas leads the United States, easily, in executions.
I'm doubtful that any of the family (Charles Watson, Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkle, Squeaky Fromme, and whomever else I may be forgetting at the moment) or Charlie himself, would have been executed in Texas.
In California, the death penalty was given out, but later overturned and life sentences assessed.
The death penalty is reserved for the most evil of people
who have committed the most heinous (villainous; wicked; hateful) of crimes.
Those of which there is no hope of rehabilitation.
It is an option, not a required penalty.
Take over.
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