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Originally Posted by WOMBAI
You don't have to die to be a martyr. Any kind of sacrifice - ie imprisonment (permanent or otherwise) can be viewed as martyrdom!
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Then I guess the term has been clouded from what it once was.
That and the fact that you would be
killing people who were prepared to die anyway with capital punishment. What sort of punishment to the individual is that? He psyched himself out and prepared himself for sacrafice in the name of his God anyway, he was under the assumption he was going to die anyway, so you would basically be handing it to him on a silver platter!
Compare that to having to spend your entire life in a cell and be rendered a number, unable to make a public statement of any sort, at the hands of those you seeked to destroy.
A lot of these people campaigning for the death penalty are just in it for there own selfish voyeuristic satisfaction. What honest difference does it make to their lives? Far more useful f
ucking things to be campaigning for, if you ask me. Maybe some of the more ardent armchair supporters of the death penalty should take up Tennis or Golf or something.