Why is this?
when someone kills someone and gets introuble for it, their punishment is death. but isn't that saying that it's okay to kill someone..?? because that's what they did.
i think it's completely wrong for someone the kill, let alone hurt someone. but it doesn't make sense to me that they're sentenced to death roll. why not life in prison?.
they're taking two lifes.
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I think that is a good idea too but life in prison mean you actually have to take care of that person. If the victim didn't live as long as the murderer then why should the murderer deserve to live longer than the victim?
Many people die by different things that they don't deserve too. For example, war. Some people serve for their country to prove their loyalty but still die innocently, so those others that kill people deliberately should get punish the same way they did to the victim.
Hopes this clear things up a little bit.
that is a valid point. I don't think they are saying killing is wrong by killing the killer. they are trying to claim that they like the idea of "two wrongs make a right". They think if he kills someone he is a bad person and bad people aren't needed in society, they just make things worse. So the government gets rid of them. they don't thinking killing is good, but they accept killing a bad killer.
two wrongs dont make a right
I believe in an eye for an eye. Unfortunately, I've had someone close to me die a very vicious death. I don't think if it happens to someone close to you then the normal person has it in them to be forgiving. Why should taxpayers continue to support people in prison or on death row when they don't deserve to live any longer? Why should they be able to get up every morning and breathe when they have taken that god given right away from someone else.
usually life in prison is like 25 years or something like that.. so really, it isnt life in prison when youre like, say, 17, though most of your teenage-hood and young adulthood is gone.
like the person above, it is a matter of "two wrongs make a right". but that isnt the most correcting solution.
Very valid point. I think this is based on religion perhaps. "An eye for an eye". Many people still believe that. There are also people who are just, in a lack of better words, psycho. Sever mental problems cause many people to kill others. Doesn't necessarily make killing them right, though.
I think it just depends on who is in power at the time and their religious beliefs. The more religious the person in power is, the more inmates on death row.
But as said before, two wrongs don't make a right. It is all in how you view it.
I believe in life in prison for the following reasons:
1. It is cheaper (believe it or not) to send someone to prison for life, rather than allowing a death row inmate exhaust all their appeals in the courts.
2. Better to have someone spend time in prison until they can prove by DNA evidence, or whatever future science yet to be developed, that they are innocent. And that is IF they are innocent.
3. I can think of no greater hell than spending the rest of my life in prison without the chance of parole. You die a slow, painful death that way.
We may want to kill someone who killed a person we loved and cared about, but we shouldn't because it makes us no better than them.
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