I don’t understand why people object to that. Some people believe that they should be thrown in jail but not killed. Why?
Do you know that it cost the government (our taxes) $61.58 per day to keep a criminal in jail for a life sentence? That’s $22476.70 per year, over 25 years that adds up to $561917.5. Over half a million! You think how many people are sentenced to life. That’s an unreal sum of money. It should be either given to charity or given back to the country and public. But NO! Some waster has killed some innocent person and we think that half a million should be wasted keeping him alive and comfortable. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s a waste of time and money for no reason.
For example, a few summers ago a man kidnapped two eleven year old girls, brought them to his house, did God only knows what to them then he killed them both and burnt their bodies. If anyone on this earth can stand up and say he deserves to have a chance or he should be allowed to live even in jail, then they need their head examined. He hasn’t been sentenced yet (don’t ask me why) but when he is there will be the slightest possibility that he will walk free again some day. He doesn’t deserve it. Why spend hundreds of thousands keeping him alive? He deserves a long and painful death, in my opinion.
My mum feels very strongly against Capital punishment. She says we don’t have the right to judge or to take other people’s lives. We aren’t judging! He has pleaded guilty to murdering the two girls so we aren’t judging. It’s a fact.
Secondly, I think we have more of a right to take his life than he has a right to live, to waste our money, to have the thought of happiness some day in the far future.
A very wise man called “Hugo Adam Bedau” once said that
- Capital punishment is cruel and unusual. Is it? Is this reason for banning it?
- Capital punishment fails to respect human life, in much the same way that murder does.
Mum says if you leave him in jail he will be depressed and will have to live with his conscience. I don’t think he has a conscience. A few days after he killed the girls he was talking to the parents and on the T.V. about how awful he thought it was. Clearly, he is a cunning and deceitful character. Can you honestly sit there and say he should be allowed to live
He doesn’t deserve the time of day. He doesn’t deserve to live. He doesn’t deserve anything apart from a long painful death. The thought of him living, wasting our money and possibly walking free some day, it makes me sick. Why he is still living mystifies me.
My mum also says that ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’. I say ‘revenge is sweet’. Imagine if man killed your eleven year old child and their best friend. Would you not just want to kill him and make him suffer? I know I would. The two girls from the story, I didn’t know them, I’d never even head of them before but when I heard about what he did to them I felt like killing him. What must the parents have felt like? Then what about their conscience, they have to live with the thought that he might walk free someday. What is that? That’s pure torture!
All these Christians are against it because they think it is wrong. The death penalty was first instituted by God Himself in Genesis 9:6: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." Man didn't invent the death penalty, so man has no right to abandon it. We live in an age when everyone is far too concerned with "human rights", and God has been practically ignored, as if He had no rights at all. Did you ever read how God commanded the Israelites to execute people? It was a PUBLIC STONING! Public opinion polls show that over 70% of the adult population would like to see a return of hanging for first degree murder. The Roman Catholic Church and liberal churches wish to continue the present status; conservative Protestant denominations are overwhelmingly in favour of a return to capital punishment.
A common argument is that statistics do not show that the death penalty deters crime when we compare death penalty states with non-death penalty states. This is a piece of information I read in a newspaper lately. “Recent crime figures from abolitionist countries fail to show that elimination has harmful effects. In Canada, the murder rate per 100,000 population fell from a peak of 3.09 in 1975, the year before the abolition of the death penalty for murder, to 2.41 in 1980, and since then it has declined further. In 2003, 27 years after abolition, the murder rate was 1.73 per 100,000 population, 44 per cent lower than in 1975 and the lowest rate in three decades.”
In the year 1993 alone, over 18,000 people were arrested for murder in the United States. Yet, in the past twenty years, there have been less than 300 executions. Today there are over 2,500 murderers on "death row", but less than fifty of them will be executed this year. That's between 15,000 and 20,000 murders per year with less than fifty executions!
Of course the death penalty has no effect! The states that HAVE the death penalty do not use it enough to show anything! Less than fifty executions out of 18,000 murders isn't going to accomplish much! I bet 18,000 executions would deter some crime!
Maybe we need TELEVISED executions every night at 8:00 p.m. on national television. Forget the movie of the week. Let's just have about 50,000,000 people sitting down every night and see some little children crying about their mother who was raped and murdered. Let's see some moms and dads mourning over their little girl who was molested and murdered by some wicked devil, and then let's see the waster get what he deserves. I bet that would deter some crime!
I believe that “The punishment should be equal to the harm done.”
