To those who say the death penalty is 'stooping to the level of the killers', to me, that logic doesn't hold up. I could take the same logic and say that imprisoning a kidnapper is stooping to his level because we're forcing him to go somewhere against his will and forcing him to stay there... by this logic we shouldn't punish anyone who encroaches on the rights of another person (kidnapping, stealing, destroying property, inflicting injury, etc.) because we would be encroaching on the criminal's rights, therefore stooping to his level.
To those who say that 'killing is always wrong', what would you do if someone was about to kill your mother and the only way to stop the person was to kill him? If someone was about to rape and murder your sister, would you maybe risk killing that person to protect her? Don't preach to people that 'killing is always wrong' without concidering things like this. I don't like the idea of killing, and would not ever want to have to do it, but sometimes it IS necessary.
