The death penalty makes no sense.

[Amarok]

Why these crimes and not others ?


So you would replace state sanctioned murder with state sanctioned torture?


Society is judged by how we treat the worst .Brutality towards them is easy . What right do victims have to some else life ?

Where to start...

Because those crimes, as far as I am concerned, are serious enough to warrant permanent removal from the planet.  Stealing a loaf of bread, isn't.  Even though people were hanged in the past for it.

Locking a murderer up for the rest of his life is torture?

What would you want, smack him on the butt and tell him not to do it again?

Actually, a society is generally judged on how it treats its most vulnerable.  Murderers, rapists, and terrorists are generally not the most vulnerable.

I keep hearing about this or that serial offender coming from a broken home or having a rough childhood.  There are millions who gave suffered the same or worse but don't become serial offenders.

Who says the victims or their families will be raking a life?  I don't even allude to that anywhere.  What I said is that laws are too often about the rights of the criminal, not tge family or the victim.

I KNOW this is a sensitive subject, but please try to refrain from putting words in my mouth.

1. So people the past clearly that it was alright to kill but this was in error .So why is your opinion be more accurate on what crime should equal death ?

2. would spending the rest of your life in a cage with no hope of escape often in solitary confinement not be torturous to you ?

3.Nope the worst. We have compassion for the vulnerable .The worst are the hardiest to feel sorry for .

4. Two people deal with the same situation differently

5. So what rights do the victims have? And sorry if i misread you .