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Originally posted by Szass-Tam:
Hang on a second.
Firstly, execution is, in simplest terms, state-sanctioned killing, and it devalues the respect we place on human life; how can we say that killing is wrong if we sanction killing criminals?
Secondly, by executing criminals you are ruling out the possibility of rehabilitation - that they may repent of their crime, serve a sentence as punishment, and emerge as a reformed and useful member of society.
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It depends, in most prisons incarceration is not designed to rehabilitate, but to sequester the criminal from normal society, punish them for what they did, and release them again. Prisons that teach a trade and marketable skills would be better than a hole to stick convicts in, but in most places it's not going to happen.
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