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Originally Posted by ronaldo
However, in the case of someone like Vincent Li, I'd be more open to it. With dozens of eye witnesses, being caught red handed, and an admission of guilt, I'd probably have no problem seeing someone like that executed.
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This is exactly what I'm saying. Where there is irrefutable evidence and the crime is severe and vicious enough and ONLY in those cases would I support the death penalty.
Keyword: irrefutable. Or an even better word: incontravertible. INDISPUTABLE.
I've at no time in any thread on this topic supported the death penalty for all convicted murderers, as of course there are too many cases where the evidence is still somewhat ambiguous. In Milgaard's case, in Steven Truscott's case, the evidence was not incontravertible. No DNA testing existed then for one thing. But in the cases of Bernardo, Li, and Picton as I've said there was no doubt at all they did what they did, period. Their trials were a formality really, in that sense.
Why anyone would oppose ridding the world if that kind of scum is beyond me. Allowing them to breath the same air as the rest of us only further punishes the victim's family. Look at some of the serial killers in the US, writing books about themselves, profiting or gleaning fame from their crimes. PFFFT. It's nice that some say "I'd like to see them locked in a tiny cell with nothing, no windows, only bread and water for life" but that's not the way it is. If it was maybe I would pipe down some about the death penalty.