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@evoman3957 wrote:

To "Pay for" as in "retribution", is to receive, at least in equal measure, the same as the Victim; in my few, anything less is to Betray the Victim; or at least to put a lesser value on THEIR life, than you put on the Perpetrators. That's why, in My earlier post, I said a large majority of People who actually work with Criminals ie. Prison Officers & Police support Capital Punishment. That, at least, is making them pay the same as they made some innocent person pay, the LEAST that should be expected. As well as THAT fact, society also wastes no more time, effort, grief etc. etc. keeping them alive; one minute longer than they have to. I except people have their own views on Capital punishment, but when you've actually spent many years of your life working with criminals and know what makes them "Tick"; the views you develop are slightly more realistic than the views some green party activist might have about a "Tree" lets say.

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If the championing of capital punishment comes from a better understanding of what makes them tick then doesn't that mean that the purpose of the punishment is to rid us of that person and any future consideration or threat thereof, rather than being an act of balancing the punishment with the crime?!

Surely if it was just an act of balancing punishment with crime then knowing what made them tick would be an insignificant factor!