Death sentence. Yes or no?

[Normchacho]

McDonaldsGuy said:

Normchacho said:

Not even kind of. My knowlege of my own capacity for violence is one of the reasons I'm against the death penalty. The purpose of the justice system is not to cater to the desires of the greiving.

Yeah the purpose is to end the state of war the prepetrator has caused against the state. Read the Social Contract - people have three natural rights; the rights to life, liberty, and property. When you murder someone you take away those rights of another person, and therefore have forfeited your own. You enter a "state of war" against the state and the state has to take means to end this state of war.

Also death penalty cases are decided by a jury, not the grieving.

Anyway you kind of insult the victims and their families by saying their emotions shouldn't matter, but the murderer's emotions do matter. Kind of devalues life, just saying.

Care to point out where I said anything about the murderers emotions?

Moving back to your first point, you don't need to kill someone to do that. Kidnapping and robbery also fall into the catagory of taking away another persons rights, why aren't we killing robbers?