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Originally Posted by rubicon
The question being posed for me has to begin with "it depends".
First when applying the death penalty it should be up to a judge/jury to make the final determination based on the evidence presented. Having said that commission of the following crimes should have the possibility of application the death penalty
A person who kills a law enforcement officer in a one on one confrontation i.e. shoots a cop.
A serial killer
A pedophile who has killed a child
An especially horrendous murder such as the black dahlia murder
A rapist who murders his victim
A terrorist whether foreign or domestic
A person who goes on a killing spree at a school, office mall, etc
Again while the death penalty has application it would be up to a judge/jury to decide.
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Why are any of your list more important than I am? You include police officers. Why? Why don't you include members of the military.
In the case of premedated murder of felony murder execute anyone who is guilty regardless of who they kill. The exception that I take is that nobody be executed based on circumstantial evidence.
There is no reason what so ever to think that a crime committed against one group is a worse crime than if it were committed against me.
Someday we will come up with a foolproof system but until then I think our current system is passable.
Just my opinion