> things you can redeem yourself for should after a redemption be redeemed to the point of clean slate. 100% agree. there should be no "pardon" system. when they have paid back society, thier record should be sealed. only a prosecutor should be able to open it (and a judge of course). but also, all serious criminals get the rope. so there is no twice convicted rapist walking around. with todays technology, and maybe a review by a "death panel" of judges, our systems produce very few false positives. so every death penalty conviction gets a full review by the judiaciary to make sure the conviction is good ... but then they hang. good bye. no more drug dealers, no more rapists, no more psychos.  when i say "rape" i mean a real rape. not some sloot who had second thoughts the morning after. i mean some pyscho who forcibly confined her, beat her and fucked her in the ass.
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