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Ah Justice, that guiding compass of what has basically become my main route of thought and decision making. What is fair, what is right? I ask myself that question all the time.
Okay so capital punishment. Personally I don't believe in it, primarily because of the chance that a justice system that upholds it could potentially end up sentencing an innocent person to death, which wouldn't be justice at all, but in fact murder by the state. Considering all the wrongfully convicted persons being released from prison and cleared of their charges all the time, the idea that one of those people could instead have to pay the ultimate price for nothing or a lesser charge is too big a risk to allow in my opinion. One that I think far outweighs any notions of justice potentially being exacted on a guilty convict. Remember, a life sentence can be overturned, but a dead person is dead no matter what.
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