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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
On the other hand, if we found ways to bring people back to life, we could kill the murderer multiple time.  "I sentence you to 5 deaths by lethal injection, to run concurrent."
Now, there's a happy thought.
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While Timber's proposal for dealing out more appropriate punishments seems - unfortunately - currently impossible to realise, couldn't the very same purpose be almost as ideally served by reintroducing torture? Besides, he and others have claimed that the only significant problem they see with the current practice of the death penalty in is the uncertaintly over the percentage of the wrongfully convicted and executed. So, wouldn't the possibility of getting more confessions through torture be a perfect way to reduce that uncertainty?
And, come to think of it, as the excessive appeal opportunities for death row inmates were also cited as a problem, wouldn't the new degree of certainty of the guilt of convicts gained through a greatly increased percentage of confessions be the ideal argument to curtail those appeal options - if not to completely abolish them?