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In another comment you said that one homicide should be punished by death in the exact same form. This would have the exact same effect as the kidnapping exampl
by carlob 11y ago
In another comment you said that one homicide should be punished by death in the exact same form. This would have the exact same effect as the kidnapping example: if you killed one person why not kill 50?
- kazinator 11y agoI wrote no such thing in that other comment. I said that such a punishment is just and concluded the comment with a remark that though just, it is not necessary to implement. The intent was to argue that even a barbaric form of capital punishment is just, never mind "regular" capital punishment. > if you killed one person why not kill 50? The simple fact that you can only be executed once already encourages multiple murders. However, you have a very valid point here in that some killers would be otherwise satisfied in perpetrating a single murder that involves torture might, out of fear of a tortuous execution, opt for "quantity over quality" and kill more people in a quick and clean manner.