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Originally Posted by Archaea
Do courts really buy this shtick?
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What is this supposed to mean? All the courts have said is if Texas (for example) wants to execute people, under our federalist system it can because it's not "cruel and unusual punishment." The courts have said nothing like that capital punishment is good or virtuous public policy. I assume the Supreme Court that condemned it as cruel and unusual punishment when the court was differently constituted condemned it.
If there's a legal opinion out there saying we kill in war so we can execute people convicted of henous crimes because there's no difference please cite it.