in court here yesterday a mother was sentenced to 2 life terms for killing her 2 children. 8 and 4 years old she hung them from a beam in the basement of her home
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That’s terrible, but it doesn’t justify the state taking someone’s life. Lots of reasons. I’ll name a few: 1. Juries get it wrong sometimes, better to let all the guilty live than to kill an innocent person. 2. Death penalty is distributed disproportionately toward the poor who can’t afford the best lawyers. 3. More expensive to put someone to death than to keep them in prison for life.
@NativePortlander1970 It doesn’t justify it for the three reasons I gave in my first comment. I’m not an abortion doctor, but you’d be right if you assumed that I have no problem with women and their doctors making medical decisions concerning their bodies without government interference.
