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Is the Call for the Death Penalty Justified?

Picture: prize_for_thought.com Saliem Fakir - One of the enduring images I have of the death penalty, when I think of it, is a sort of revenge - this desire to extinguish another’s life with the hope to cleanse the earth of a lingering rot by an act of violence as reprisal. It may well be one of our primordial cultural traits from the by-gone days when tribal law required that we preserve our honor by taking a life-for-a-life. When we did not have good social skills we relied on the symbolic power of brute force to keep the...