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Only civilised people are against the death
penalty.
I must beg to correct your 3) below. Actually, it
is much MORE expensive to murder, excuse me, ah, EXECUTE (state murder
just like the Nazis did). Keeping them in prison for life only costs a
fraction of the inimum $2million to fry the bugger. I only mention it
here, because for decades I heard the argument that it costs more to keep them
alive and in prison. It seems that nobody did the maths until
recently. I can't remember the documentary that first educated me, but
Ralph Nader's Presidential campaign pointed this out. Of course, he was
not allowed to debate it, now was he. Is that democratic? Of
course not. WAKE UP AMERICA - you live in a non-democratic state of
barbarianism.
Mikus gives some more reasons. I believe that there are
as many reasons as there are humanbeings.
The sad fact is that Americans are UN-forgiving, and love to
punish. They love it so much, they rush into it and make a mess out of it
as it backfires. I'm only thinking of international incidents.
Within it's own frontiers, it is more common, of course, due to the proximity of
, wait for it. . . Americans. Waco springs to mind. I'm sure you all
can think of more than a million small and large incidents. What material
for Hollywood! Isn't it great! All those films. And TV programs, and
"dime" novels, and shrink books, and self-help books, and Oprah, and on and on
and on. it's the economy, innit. The USA is NOT an "advancing society", it
has deteriorated so much, that my own parents, who lived through both the
depression AND the two world wars, were happy to say "good-bye" when the time
came. But, enough. We all agree here, anyway.
cheers,
S. Bennett
I am against the death penalty for several
reasons:
> >1) For the guilty, death is a blessing, not truely a punishment. >2) For the innocent, being killed for a crime they did not commit is a >horrible thing, and the system is NOT good enough to kill only the >guilty. >3) As for money, if we are killing people just to save money then we >should be investing our money in rehab instead of incarciration for most >of the convicted criminals in our society. Are we? NO!! >4) I think it would be a better idea to rehabilitate those who can be >changed, and kick the rest of them out of the country. And devise some >way of keeping them out until their innocense is proven or something. I will agree with your reasons, above, but think there are more... one more I would suggest is that: We can prove ourselves no better than the person we are attempting to punish, by killing him/her/them. How can a society of individual people be proud to say they have killed another human being in an act of vengence, or retaliation, or punishment, or even for the sake of deterence, which we all know deters nothing? A civil, and advancing society, which is what most people tend to beleive we, as a society, are doing, by creating laws and attempting to reduce crime, would find ways to PREVENT the crimes, as opposed to using punishment of the criminals as a deterent to those who would become such. A society which must continuously add and redefine laws in order to maintain an illusion of an advancing, caring society, is a failure of such a great magnitude, that one must rely on maintaining the illussion of a safe society because of the mere presence of so many laws... No government on Earth, yet, has managed to proclaim a victory in such that laws were unnecessary, other than the common sense laws of not harming another, which wouldn't even need to be written down. The Killing of another person, by the government, other than in the act of self-defense(or defense of another) is as much an act of war against the whole populace as if it were done by an anonymous person planting an eggsplosive in a large building... Mikus P.S. - There may be many more reasons for not killing than that. And maybe there are reasons TO kill, like the other person wants to die, as is their choice, but that would fall more in the assisted suicide catagory, and not as part of this discussion. IMO, a FREE society does not KILL, regardless of its desire to rid itself of an "evil". |
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