Against it. If I said I was "pro-life" and then stated I was for the "death penalty," I would be a major hypocrite.
As for those who are obvious threats to society, nothing suits them better than rotting away in prison forever with no chance for parole. I don't buy the usual crap argument that prison is just an easy ride. If that's the case, then why are most reasonable people scared of it?
Besides, the last thing we need is martyrdom. I'm always reminded of V.I. Lenin's older brother, who was executed for plotting against the tsar. Not only did such a situation profoundly anger him, it was his motivation to start the communist revolution and the Soviet Union over thirty years later. We would like to think that by executing someone, we are simply disposing of that person forever. That may be the case, but that person does have loved ones, and it is selfish to take that person away from their family. It is certainly not going to erase what crime he/she perpetrated. Like I said, let them rot in prison without parole. Seems like more than a fit punishment.
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time