theres this thing i read and i agree with it and i dont get how someone could not agree with it please help me

human evolution dearie… unfortunately we haven’t evolved much beyond the caveman days when you hit your neighbour over the head for him hitting you over yours…

I agree with you. I believe that this hypocrisy is the reason that violent crime rates are higher in death penalty states. The government becomes the bad parent who says “do as I say, not as I do.”

Among the many other problems with the death penalty:

– Sometimes our legal system gets it wrong. Look at all the criminals who are being released after years of imprisonment because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. No matter how rare it is, our government should not risk executing one single innocent person.

– Because of the extra expense of prosecuting a DP case and the appeals process (which is necessary – see the previous reason), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.

– There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age.

– The U.S. government is supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. James 4:12 says that God is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

You have to be able to differentiate between an innocent person being maliciously murdered and a deranged killer being punished for taking the life of an innocent person or people. The quote you have there seems to have the killer, victim, and punisher on equal terms. Also, I don’t believe most see the death penalty as a deterrent, but more as a penalty. The objective of putting someone in prison is to rehabilitate them so they can become a law abiding productive citizen. The death penalty is meant for those more vicious criminals who are beyond rehabilitation. Basically, we don’t “kill people who kill people to show people that killing is wrong”. We punish bad people who murder innocent people because it is the only punishment suitable to the crime.

One reason why this statement might cause you confusion is because of the limitations of language, all killing is called killing, but in fact there is many different ways to cause death and they are very different from each other. Killing is not killing would be the title of my essay on this topic. But in summary, there are many different types of killing and the circumstances make the difference. Killing in self-defense, killing in war, killing to protect the lives of others, killing to survive, killing as an act of justice, killing by accident, etc. killing one way is not like killing another, even though the word killing is used for both.

There is also irony (not about ironing), like the joke about what they do to you in Georgia for committing the crime of sodomy, they put you in a cell with a man named Buba, who is going to sodomize you.

Like other people have said, we don’t kill to show people it is wrong to kill, we kill because someone has killed unjustly or illegally and we kill to prevent more killing.

The idea of capital punishment is not to kill someone in order to show that killing someone is wrong. It is to show that for every action there is a consequence, and the logic behind it is that for someone who willingly took the life of another doesn’t deserve to experience it either.

well it is pretty confusing some people have a different point of view i for me i don’t agree with it a little coz…. if your showing to other people that killing is wrong why would you kill a person?? i’m i right?

We don’t kill killers to show them that they did wrong. They already KNOW what they did was wrong. We kill them to protect society from them. That society also includes the prison population. There is also always the possibilitly of escape. Another good reason for death penalty is to disuade others from commiting the same acts.

Well, it is questioning why we seek vengeance when someone commits murder.. Seek justice, not vengeance. We do not want to stoop down to their level, but sometimes you must “cut off a finger to save the hand”.