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Originally Posted by diuretic
Any time this has been suggested and I've read about it I've tried to make the point that it endangers the victim. I wonder at the stunning stupidity of some legislators or perhaps it's not stupidity so much as pandering to populism. Either way it's a stupid thing to do, to sentence someone to death for any offence short of murder.
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Some crimes are just so heinous, so offensive to civilized society, that one could see how those crimes warrant the death penalty. It is generally accepted that raping a child falls into that category.
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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