Count me in as another "not against" type. I wouldn't actively advocate introducing capital punishment in a country which doesn't have it, but I don't see anything inherently wrong in having it.
I'll be the first to agree that no one, including the state, is entitled to murder others no matter what they did. Except that, without any context on how we define "murder", this is just a comfortable slogan. Not every killing is a murder. Think abortion. Euthanasia. Killing an enemy soldier on the battlefield. I bet most of you will find at least one of those examples a morally acceptable killing. So why not death penalty (provided the law allows it only in sufficiently rare cases)?
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