nay, simply because if we give the government control over who can live and who has to die, they are constitutionally backed to kill whoever they want. the end.
Nay. And for the states that do have it no matter what my opinion is, they should get an express lane. And a motto. "You killed one of our people, so we're gonna kill you back!" Is the death penalty really going to teach them a lesson? Sure, it will get rid of them and make sure they never again commit a crime, and it will make more room in the jails, but what's that going to do?
i say nay...not because im pro-life but because the people on death row were put there to be punished. killing them isnt giving them that punishment...its just giving them a way out. i mean if the person on death row is a threat to the others living in jail...like if they were a threat to the guards or might kill another inmate...then you should kill them in that case...but they werent put in jail to die, they were put in jail to rot and be punished.
Nay, because I believe in order to have a Justice System that gives the ultimate punishment it must be an infallible system and are Justice System is hardly infallible. Between 1976 and 2001 of the 795 convicts sentenced to death 98 were later to be found innocent. So for every 8 convicts sentenced to death 1 is innocent. I hardly believe we should be practicing the death penalty with these numbers. I supported George Ryan's decision, back in January of 2000, to enact moratorium. We must halt the death penalty and fix our system; too many innocent people are being convicted.
___I don't like any politicians, lawyers, or goverment type people('cause I'm prejudiced like that), but because I don't think it's in their own best interests to focus on the truth and the truth alone, it is why they don't. People with that much power, who are being paid to enforce their own idea of justice, thoroughly disturb me. What one person deems a permiscible for punishment of a crime, may be completely contrary to what I think would solve the same discrepancy.
___I don't contain a real solid force for altering how the death penalty will be used in the world, and since I don't plan on killing anyone anytime soon, I realy couldn't care less where, why, when or to whom it happens to.
___If you want to be enilightened in an interesting perspective on the death penalty, watch the movie "The Life of David Gale" with Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, and Cate Winslet. I feel some of it may have been exaggerated for cinematic purposes, but the message behind the film is very moving, in a dark yet inspiring way.
Letter, I didn't mean to sound like I was bashing you! Sorry! >__<
Yes, I agree with you: life in prison is not alot of fun. The only problems I have with that sentence are:
1) The convicts do NOT always get life in prison. They can weasle their way out of it if their family is wealthy enough to keep dragging the case through court. Also, they can manage to get out of jail "on good behavior." If they got a life sentence, they had better well serve it!
2) The convicts get many luxuries that their victims did not have. First off, they are alive, which is more than most of their victims can say. Second, they get actual food and shelter for the rest of the time they are there. Third, they have activites to keep them occupied, such as weight training, tv, and things that their families send them. Fourth, they get a college education; for free! What does a man in jail for life need an expensive college education for?
3) It costs taxpayers alot of money each year. I do not remember the average amount of money spent each year per convict, but I do know that it is more than some people make a year. If these convicts are tough enough to do something horrible enough to manage to get a life sentence, I think they can live in minimum living conditions.
4) They get psychiatric help. Sure, they may need it; but what about those poor victims or the victims' families and friends? They are not getting free help and they are the ones who deserve to have it more.
Well, that's all I can think of right now. Sorry again if anyone felt I was attacking them because I wasn't. ^__^;;
Hey, believe me, I'm probably one of the most unsympathetic people you'll ever meet. But just because they aren't dead doesn't mean they're getting off easy. Life in prison is definitely not fun, if they get death then it's over and done with quickly. And you're right that these people are the kinds who very very rarely change their ways, but I think if one out of a hundred does, isn't that worth it? Maybe it sounded like I wanted to give the convicts candy and then read them stories, but I didn't mean it like that...by all means they should be punished. I just don't think death is a good punishment, for many reasons.
The kinds of people who get the death penalty aren't the types who "change their ways." They usually get life for killing/hurting many people, or killing/hurting them in a horrible fashion (aka, 2 men kidnap 2 kids [boy and girl], they both rape the girl then stab her about 18 times, before shooting them both. 1 of the 2 got death penalty, and he fought it till the end before finally admitting that he did commit that crime. He would not have done so otherwise; he would have gotten away and been proud of himself). I think stuff like that deserves death penalty.
If your child was kidnapped, raped, stabbed, and finally shot, would you really want that man to live? Neither of those families did. Those 2 men tortured those kids and then killed them. That, in my eyes, warrants the death penalty. Let God subjectively judge and forgive them; our job is to only objectively judge.
I think that if you are going to have the death penalty, you'd better make sure that those people are guilty of their crime. Like I said before, we're here to give justice, not sympathy. I wouldn't want my child's murderer running around just to do what he did to him/her to someone else.
Eh I just don't think a government should have the power to end a life. I think our country should maybe do away with the death penalty and focus on rehabilitating the convicts. I know a lot of them won't be...a lot...but I think we should offer second chances if they show that they've changed.
I am against the death penalty because it lets people off easy. if they have to spend their life in prison it gives them time to think about what they did.
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