NationStates Jolt Archive

Italian lifers have asked the president to reinstate the death penalty. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6707865.stm)

Any thoughts? I am personally opposed to the death penalty, and remain so. But when the people who would be killed actually ask for it, it is harder to say why.

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Never mind the ethics of it, it's an easy way out/

The lifers have asked for it because they hate being caged like animals. To me, that's a very good reason NOT to have the death penalty - the fact that life inprisonment is harsher.

Italians kind of have a huge landmark which they light up every time someone is executed in opposition to the death penalty. I doubt that they're going to go back on that.

OMG this is the third thread we've had today on this topic!

*uses thread echoing as a form of navigation*