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- Nov 8, 2011
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There are certainly people in this world who deserve to die. Not sure any human is qualified to make that judgement. As it is the death penalty is all far too arbitrary and stinks of racial and economic bias. In a more perfect world the government would absolutely not have the power of life and death over it's citizens. I like that idea way better than killing people who killed people as a public spectacle for the entertainment industry to make more money.Plenty of white guys on death row, and the current DP opponents tend to focus more on blacks than whites as a matter of principle.
Also blacks commit crimes worthy of the death penalty at a rate higher than whites, so when comparing the numbers you have to go with DP crimes like murders to get the proper comparison, and eliminate crimes with no possible DP implications that whites seem to do more.