The death penalty.

[welshbloke]

MrBubbles said:

welshbloke said:

Two wrongs do not make a right. As a modern society we really should have no room for capital punishment. Even when somebody is correctly convicted and given the death penalty the state then torture them through the judicial system. All those things aside humans make to many mistakes to make life and death decisions and as we know a lot of people have died in error sorry does not cut it.

 

its pretty wrong to keep people caged up as animals for years on end, so i guess we should just release criminals after convicting them.  since anything else would just be plain wrong.

Obviously that would be insane and locking people up is in no way the same as executing them. The emphasis in modern society is rehabilitation and if they cannot be rehabilitated to protect society. Protecting society does not have to be "kill the bastard".

Maybe you also agree with stoning women and lobbing peoples hands off for stealing sweets, where does your version of justice end when is it a good time to sanction state authorised killing? At some point we and in we I would general refer to what is known as the west tend to frown on executions. Very few western countries execute the US is a very notable exception and one that I think makes it difficult for it take the high moral ground at times.