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I'm in favor of preserving people as long as something good can be made out of them. From that perspective the term capital punishment is self contradictory. A dead person cannot learn by his/her mistakes, and that person cannot improve in any way and cannot give anything back to the society.
A decent punishment would be imprisonment and an array of well planned mechanisms to make that person be worth preserving in our population, and be worth interacting with from the point of view of the other members of that society.
But I suppose death penalty is not about punishment, it's about warning people. Making them think "I don't want do end up like that guy". That is effective, but then again, that wouldn't benefit the people, nor the person who ended up dead.
Sorry I messed up my english writing here, I hope that sounded clear, need to practice a bit more.
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