Jason1977
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When it comes to the DP, or even to any sentence for incarceration (and as incarceration is far from any sort of rehabilitation), I don't buy that justice does not contain a large amount of vengeance.See, I am too... but not when it comes to our justice system. I see the DP as the ultimate justice for the ultimate offenses. It's not about 'revenge', only about justice. There is a case for the DP - but there are far more cases where life w/o parole is sufficient. Thing with me is I tend not to get emotionally involved unless I see the verdict as an unjust one. I'm not one of the howling dogs who wants to spend 5 minutes in a room with some asshole who murdered a child. I am one who thinks if you kill our most vulnerable, or those whose job is to protect us, then you deserve the DP for that. Most others, not.
Irrespective of that, I find that the potential of mistake is too compelling a reason for keeping the DP. Always have, since I was a kid.
I will never be in favor of the DP.
Then we make improvements to ensure that mistakes don't happen. But, I tell you this, there is a huge groundswell in Europe that want to bring it back. Living without it is not all it's made up to be. There are uncivilized people who deserve the justice of having their lives taken. It's sad, and it should be done for 'revenge' it should always be justice... an appropriate sentence for the crime. The problem with the US is that we hand it out without due consideration.
I know it, that's a good point, it's like they sentence people to the gallows & ask questions later.