hypocrisy at its finest

[rinnia]

When people can stand and recommend that killing be followed by killing, all rationality has been forgotten. How vengeful are we, that we play God with other people's lives because they did it to someone else? I don't care if he was guilty - it's a uniform opinion that I follow. We cannot be sure that every convicted criminal is guilty, and if even one innocent man is killed, that's one too many. I don't want to pay more taxes to kill people. Let them rot in jail. At least then, if they're found innocent, they can be released. Behind bars, they don't exist in this world, the same as being dead. Why spend more money to do what they did and are being punished for?

Or maybe we all deserve the punishment. Revenge is not noble, nor is it objective. Government should be both, and is unfortunately neither. We should take the steps towards nobility and equality, and ask, "Who are we to pick who lives and dies?" Punishment by imprisonment, not by human rage.

Thank you.

Comments

[voifac.livejournal.com]

i thought that it would be a lot less expensive to kill guilty ones than to keep them alive and healthy for years and years, but i've never seen official figures. and i only support the death penality for the ones who enter a guilty plea or are so obviously guilty all they can hope for is a reduction in sentence due to a technicality.
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[draconox.livejournal.com]

or sociopaths. they're just evil.

but yes, i believe it is ultimately cheaper for the taxpayers to use the death penalty than to pay for each person to live out his life in prison.

[rinnia.livejournal.com]

No, it's not. Read this. And, that same conclusion is presented in "Legal Lynching" by Reverend Jesse Jackson.

I've done my research. The death penalty is far more expensive than life in prison.