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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A.Hinkle" data-source="post: 3909147" data-attributes="member: 50585">What happens when the people in charge decide that abortion (or anything else; this is just the topic you supplied) is bad and warrants the death penalty?  The problem imo with having a capital punishment for violating the law is the law changes.  I don't trust elected officials to establish sensible or moral laws, I don't trust the justice system to sensibly or morally enforce the laws, so i'm personally uncomfortable with the state deciding they get to kill someone.  There are definitely things one can do that warrant death, I just don't think the state gets to decide what those are.</blockquote>