Reply #44: I am also mostly against the DP but there are times when I'm less against it [View All]

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But, I don't think I've celebrated it being imposed. There are just times, like with Tim McVeigh. He was a cold, remorseless, evil entity. Hearing him speak in that interview before his death was like ice on the soul.

Or in the case of Ted Bundy. A fiend if ever there was one.

I'm not sorry they are gone. I am glad they will never hurt or influence another person again. However, I still didn't celebrate the actual act that took them off the planet.

If used at all, I would want to see the death penalty used only against human monsters like these, the worst of the worst. I'd liken it to dispatching a rabid dog. It should be something done in extremely rare instances, and certainly without any sense of glee or even vengeance. Killing a rabid dog is an awful thing. But it's something necessary. Thankfully, it's also now also rare, something most people have only seen in movies.

I think the death penalty should be the same way; reserved for the Bundy's and McVeigh's of the world, those rare few deemed too dangerous to exist even behind concrete walls and razor wire.