Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
There are cases where the Death Penalty is valid. Certainly, any murderer deserves death.

HOWEVER, the threat of convicting an innocent man is a very real one. What does anyone get from the death penalty, besides some vague sense of peace of mind? Is that worth an innocent man's life? The answer is no.

Unless you can trust your government to be right 100% of the time, the Death Penalty is unethical. Vengeance is a petty excuse to run to the risk of killing innocent people.
Unless you think that Anders Breivik was innocent or framed by the Government I think that he illustrates the rare time when someone can be fast tracked in front of a wall and given a blindfold. He would also make a good organ donor. He can never make amends for all he did, but pieces of him can help quite a few people.