Reply #81: You are not a death penalty opponent. [View All]

[cali]

dp opponenents oppose the dp- they don't eke out exceptions.

And it's nonsense to state that people who commit heinous crimes are somehow inhuman. To the contrary, they're all too human. But some of you just can't deal with that so you attempt to place him outside the human realm.

Furthermore, it's just sad that people don't grasp how responding to crime with cruel treatment, diminishes the entire society. That's not being a bleeding heart.

Put the guy in prison for a good long time.

Oh, and yes I believe people who do such things can, at least sometimes, be rehabilitated.