Originally Posted by
akansaskid
A sentence functions as a deterrent as well as punishment........ It's a slippery slope you're on: so murders shouldn't get long sentences because it harms the murders' families? Where in the continuum of crime do you draw your line? I kinda like it where it's at, myself, when someone's actions causes another's death.
Bull. Myself and millions of other Americans have... on occasion volunteered to kill people.... and have been thanked as [war] hero's for our actions.
These calls for punishment come from fear.... not logical reasoning. I can not begin to guess what "punishment" would satisfy anyone's fear. In the decades of debate about death sentences.... no conclusive stats have ever been found. But I might add that
there is at least one public square where women accused of cheating on their husbands have been stoned to death..... every week for the last 1500 years. Yet... the women apparently still cheat.