Death sentence. Yes or no?

[Puppyroach]

zero129 said:

Puppyroach said:

Absolutely not. I believe that no one, not the state or an individual, has the right to decide a persons right to live or die. It's barbaric and medieval and focuses on some kind of "revenge" aspect of the legal system, when a legal system shouldn't enact revenge on criminals, but rather justice.

But as you can see that "Individual" Did decide to take a life, so if he killed a number of children shouldnt that mean that he in return should forfoit his right to live since he made that choice by taking anothers life?.

That is not how a justice system is supposed to work. It is never built upon the view of "an eye for an eye" but rather imprisonment or fines depending on the gravity of the crime and a focus on rehabilitation of individuals. Is your view that if someone shoots another person, but that person doesn´t die, the sentence is to shoot the criminal aswell? As a society we must be far more evolved than this.