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Mephisto said:
Killing is just never an answer.
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Too bad the guy who killed her parents with a hammer, then killed her brother a week later and repeatedly raped the 8 year old girl for a week didn't believe the same as you.
Tis a shame.
The "state" is not the same as a individual, who, as you point out, has certain "inalienable" rights. An individual does not have the right to kill another individual, but then an individual cannot tax another individual, nor can an individual setup their own road laws and enforce them in front of their house on a public street either.
It is a noble thing, to want to wipe off killing in general with a wide brush, and that little girl may be traumatized and best if she is spared. That is, maybe. But to put "do the right thing" and that guys name in the same sentence is still sick and twisted. And it should be her right, when she is old enough to decide, that if it would feel right to her that a trial go on, and he be put to death for his crimes, that too should be her inalienable right, not through herself as an individual, but through the institution of goverment, which has the right to enforce its higher will on individuals and always has.