bonzobanana said:
Puppyroach said:
Death sentence is the perfect example of when two wrongs don't make a right. Extremely unprofessional of a judge to make personal remarks in court as well, he should let the sentence speak for itself. |
When I was young I didnt believe in the death sentence for murder but as you get older you get to understand reality a bit more. I reject the two wrongs dont make a right though as that makes it sound like two equal wrongs when one is the murdering of innocent lives and the other is putting an evil person to death. To me two wrongs would be first the commiting of the crime and the second wrong would be incorrect punishment where the person gets a prison sentence and years later gets out and continues their live when they have taken the lives of others, that to me would be the second wrong.
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Murder is murder, it doesn't matter if the state or individual does it. I look at it this way: If your child hits a friend, this would be the equivalent of you then hitting your child to prove how wrong that action is. When the state kills an individual, no matter what that individual has done, it sends the signal to society that killing is right, as long as you find it justified. In essence, the state continues to promote murder by having a death sentence.
A society can be soo much more than so simpleminded that murder is the only outcome we see in these cases.
