Views on the Death Penalty? (a poll)

[The Valkyrie]

You're only considering the guy to be killed, Beccs, you're forgetting about the guys doing the killing.  The general idea is that if a person is "guilty enough" then maybe we can get behind it....and I get that (I really do).  But is his being "guilty enough" a reason for you to pull the switch, to become a killer yourself?

To me, it's not all that different from giving a soldier a gun, sending him to a combat zone and saying "there's your enemy, shoot him" except that the executioner, if that's what you want to call him/her, would have to be a volunteer - someone who is prepared to do the job, not necessarily someone who wants to do the job.

I'm not talking about a slavering psychopath with an urge to kill, here.  I'm talking about a carefully vetted individual who would be prepared to do the job.

And, honestly, with my limitations on the death penalty, I doubt many would qualify for it, anyway.