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Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP
That said, I think death penalty is not dissimilar to euthanasia. Even in the cases when the latter is the person in question's will initially, it still involves a perpetrator who makes an irrevocable decision that a given person would be "better off" killed (better for themselves in case of euthanasia, better for society in case of death penalty).
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As far as I know, the "irrevocable decision" is never made by the "perpetrator" (I would use the term "implementer"), but by the intended. I'm thinking Kevorkian here--perhaps we're not on the same page. I'm not aware of non-elective euthanasia happening in the civilized nations.
