(October 11, 2016 at 1:41 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Eh if multiple people saw someone kill a family in cold blood yes I think that person should die. I really don't care if yall think me a monster. Why should those lives end when they were innocent and he gets three meals a day, a roof over his head, and access to bettering himself through school and working while locked up? Who cares if he is locked up for life when he still has a life? The family members of those he killed will never get back their loved ones and sitting in a cell is no compensation for lives lost.
As Rhythm pointed out there is no such thing as 100% when it comes to humans and justice. Hell, that's the standard we try to have right now, and that certainly hasn't stopped the innocent from being executed. As long as you have the death penalty implemented, you run the risk of killing someone who wasn't guilty.
So, which is more important? Getting revenge on a killer or just letting them rot in prison to ensure that no innocent person is executed?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
