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Argument: Capital punishment is not barbaric; it is often a civilized punishment
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Charles Colson. "Preserving the Dignity of Man. The Case for Capital Punishment". Prison Fellowship Ministries. 2001 - Why is it barbaric to require that one who violently steals the life of an innocent (or 168 innocents) not be allowed to keep his own? Where is the moral tradition that prescribes life for mass-murderers? How can it be civilizing to tell the world's worst people that no matter no matter how many victims they butcher, no matter what cruelty they inflict on others, the worst that will happen to them is that they will go to prison? Those are questions that abolitionists never answer.
Jeff Jacoby. "Straw Men vs. Capital Punishment". Capitalism Magazine. July 20, 2001 - Why is it barbaric to require that one who violently steals the life of an innocent (or 168 innocents) not be allowed to keep his own? Where is the moral tradition that prescribes life for mass-murderers? How can it be civilizing to tell the world's worst people that no matter no matter how many victims they butcher, no matter what cruelty they inflict on others, the worst that will happen to them is that they will go to prison? Those are questions that abolitionists never answer.
