I guess I tend to be more for the death penalty. IMO its not so much getting revenge for a death, it's pretty much getting rid of people who really shouldn't still be breathing (ie. you let them out they'll kill more people and it's a known fact). Yeah, human life has it's value but that worth really isn't unconditional - you have to hold up your end and *be* a human being. If your killing other people in cold blood and getting off on harming people in general you've pretty much forfeited your humanity and completely broken your end of the deal. At that rate every breath afterward is really on time stolen through the advantage of most people's better nature - especially when it was similarly good people who a particular person shanked, shot, tortured, etc..
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