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Matt asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 2 years ago

Should governments kill people? Should the military or judicial system (death penalty) murder people?

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  • 2 years ago

    NEVER, unless it's necessary for self-defense or defense of others.

  • 2 years ago

    Politicians go with what they think the majority wants.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    There are people who are just to Dan evil to be here

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Only if they want to be dead too. The public has the right to defend its self in that case.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    If the Supreme Court votes yes on the death penalty. It certainly shouldn't be up one person, especially William Barr.

  • DJC
    Lv 5
    2 years ago

    The death penalty should be banned in all 55 states and territories plus DC, and it should be banned at the federal level and from the military code of justice. The death penalty is expensive (much more expensive than lifelong incarceration), it is barbaric, it is sinful, and it leaves the possibility of injustice. How many people have we seen released from death row because their convictions were later vacated (a.k.a. turns out they didn't do it)? Imagine if those inmates had been executed before it was found out that they were innocent. The government would have just executed innocent people. You can release a wrongfully-convicted prisoner, but you can't un-execute someone.

  • 2 years ago

    Only enemies during war as a result of battle. Killing via judicial proceedings is vengeance not justice.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    It is how the Clintons did it

  • 2 years ago

    only when absolutely necessary

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