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 The death penalty represents the ultimate bastion of retribution, and our justice system allows for this seemingly arbitrary process to go on through mechanisms like secret jury deliberations and victim impact statements. And in the end, a certain segment of our population pays the ultimate price for such a fixation on retribution.
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  • I think this is a fine essay, but I think you'd improve it by focusing further on drunk driving and leaving the death penalty discussion out altogether, or with not much more than the brief mention midway through. Where you're going implies enough about capital punishment that you don't need to spend ink there. On harm reduction as opposed to punishment, there's a great deal to say. And as your pal Whitmire observes, the most important part, which you haven't given yourself space for, is how to keep cowards like him in business by teaching them ways to talk sense that aren't political suicide. (Even, one hopes against hope, in the hardest place on earth in which to get a hearing for good sense, which experience shows is somewhere between Louisiana and New Mexico.)
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