Capital Puni§Hment
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
by Paul Schonfeld
Say that a man packs a hundred pounds of plastic explosives into a school lunch item such as mashed potatoes and turkey gravy, and then detonates the bombs after everyone is done eating. The man then goes back and freezes the lunchroom in a huge, clear cube of ice and puts the scene on display at a private museum that only psychopaths can access. A man who would do something like this is obviously a nut case who likes killing people. As you see here, capital punishment would be a good thing, and in other instances as well, if used correctly.
If all crimes were like this, these two things would be true: One, the choice of capital punishment or not would be easy; it’d be yes. Two, there would be no one left on this planet, either because they like to blow up peoples’ stomachs and are executed, or because they are...