Death Penalty - what is your opinion about it?

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nathantay said:

rickthestick2 said:

nathantay said:
Putting someone in prison for life costs tax payers money. If they are found guilty for killing someone they should be killed as well because they have no respect for human life and they should have their life taken away.

First off, do you know how much crap they buy with the taxpayer's money?

Secondly, not all murderers have "no respect for human life".

And thirdly, we aren't 12th century crusaders here. We should learn how to respect human life by not killing off anyone who is accused of a "very bad thing".

First off, Bob and Mary shouldn't have part of their tax money go to pay for the person who killed their kid to eat, read, work out, and have a roof over their head.

Secondly, if you murder someone that isn't out of self defense you obviously have no respect for human life.

And thirdly, yes we should resect life but you have to punish people for the crime they have commited,and if their is video, eye witness, or DNA that proves someone is quilty for murdering someone than yes they should face the death penalty. Also murdering someone is a little more than a "very bad thing".

People don't kill others just because they don't respect human life. Sometimes it's because they feel they have to, or they have some kind of mental disease. Ever watched Tyler Perry's "Daddy's Little Girls"? The main Character's ex-wife and his ex-wife's boyfriend got the rights to his children and the boyfriend beat the kids. So when the man heard of it he got angry and attacked the boyfriend. Now if the Man killed the boyfriend would that mean that he has no respect for human life? Because he obviously wasn't attacking the boyfriend in self defense.

And like i said before, we have no right to go around mudering muderers, we're more sophisticated than that (or we should be). And you have to understand the fact that men aren't immutable, people do and can change.

EDIT: There is a difference between Justice and Revenge.