Is it ever justified?
In my opinion, it's not. When we kill killers, we become them. No matter what crime someone has committed, the death penalty should never be an option.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Oly Lifter We need to worry about the morality of abortion before we worry about the morality of the death penalty. The backwards logic of liberals is its okay to kill an innocent human being but it is not okay to kill a guilty human being.[/quote] Is it ok for someone to die from the lack of care? Should I be called a murderer for not running through a crowded street to push away an old woman who is about to be hit by a bus? Should I be called a murderer for not running into a burning building to save someone? Those are passive actions which result in death. That's not murder. Murder would be actively causing death. It would be me pushing an old woman in front of a bus or lighting a fire with people inside a house. Abortion is a woman refusing to give a fetus free reign of her body. It's a lack of care. It's passive because the fetus dies without her providing her body for the fetus live on. The death penalty is an active effort to kill someone. Two different things.