Capital Punishment., Right or wrong? Options

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Sorry if there was a thread like this already.

Here's something that I posted in an old blog a long time ago.

Alright, so this is something that's been on my mind ever since second hour yesterday. I was just in French class, and Mrs. Ault was telling us about the French Revolution and how they switched over to using the guillotine in order to make death quicker and more humane. Then she told us how they stopped death penalties altogether in 1972.

I don't know why, but it just made me jealous. Also angry. About how we still have capital punishment in the US.

I dunno about you guys, but I think that it's COMPLETELY wrong to kill somebody, no matter what their crime(s) was.

If we wanted to make the person pay even more for what they did, wouldn't it be even more punishment to make them sit in jail for life? {Well, they'll be sitting in jail for a pretty long time, because I haven't heard of any death penalty that's taken less than ten years to pass through the judicial systems. With that in mind, I don't even think that capital punishment can be used as a deterent, because it's not like the person is going to get injected right away.}

I don't know. I just think it's gross, how a country with SUCH high religious morals would say "We have the right to take your life for taking someone else's, when you don't even have the right to take your own."

It's like the Hammurabi code. "An eye for an eye." That set of laws is so outdated and it sickens me that it happens here.

Plus after ten, fifteen years, the criminal could be a completely changed person..don't you think? And then they could finally get killed for something they did ten or fifteen years before, when the general public won't even recognize them when they get fried or injected on TV.

Yeah, I'm sure the victim's family would be glad to see that they have been put to justice, but I don't know. If someone came and took my child's life, or someone I know, after ten years I'd let them sit in jail. I wouldn't take pleasure in seeing them killed, no matter how painless it might look.

It just makes me wonder, how, after a man commits an abominable crime, he has less value than an itty-bitty fetus who cannot think nor feel nor process emotions.

In this country I think we focus too much on the punishment rather than rehabilitation.

[*mipadi*]

There is an existing death penalty topic here. Please feel free to repost there.