Even if the person in question has done the most horrendous deeds known to man. What gives us the right to take his or her life? Using biblical ideas as a basis of your laws is not a good thing and should be avoided at all costs. An "eye for an eye" is not how we should be looking at the way to punish criminals in todays modern world and it goes against every ethical aspect of it. Which is the reason we do not allow relatives to punish the offender as they see fit because it is completely immoral and would not be productive as to how society is run.
No matter how monsterous this person may have been they're still a human being. Why is it illegal for those on the streets to murder someone, but the state is allowed to do so? Aren't all those involved in carrying out this deed plus those involved in voting for it to be put into place and continue to do so implicit in the murder of that person? In my opinion they are. Killing another human being is the worst thing anyone can do so why use it as a punishment for doing so it's a completely hypocritical practice.
Wouldnt't it be more of a punishment to lock this person up for the rest of their lives in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day? To me, that sounds like much more of a punishment. I'm not one who believes in an afterlife so to me killing someone for their crime just puts them out of their misery more than it does the family because what do they care after they've been injected or electricuted, they're dead. There is no hell in which they will be punished for these crimes. No, all that'll happen is that they will lose the ability to think about what they've done. Nothing more. Life imprisonment with no chance of parole is so much more of a punishment in my opinion.
There are far too many reasons to list, but I think you get the general overview of my opinion on the subject.
No matter how monsterous this person may have been they're still a human being. Why is it illegal for those on the streets to murder someone, but the state is allowed to do so? Aren't all those involved in carrying out this deed plus those involved in voting for it to be put into place and continue to do so implicit in the murder of that person? In my opinion they are. Killing another human being is the worst thing anyone can do so why use it as a punishment for doing so it's a completely hypocritical practice.
Wouldnt't it be more of a punishment to lock this person up for the rest of their lives in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day? To me, that sounds like much more of a punishment. I'm not one who believes in an afterlife so to me killing someone for their crime just puts them out of their misery more than it does the family because what do they care after they've been injected or electricuted, they're dead. There is no hell in which they will be punished for these crimes. No, all that'll happen is that they will lose the ability to think about what they've done. Nothing more. Life imprisonment with no chance of parole is so much more of a punishment in my opinion.
There are far too many reasons to list, but I think you get the general overview of my opinion on the subject.