Swales lives said:
I haven't read the link to the crime committed but obviously someone has done something beyond evil.
If anyone abused my kids or killed a family member - I'd dish out my own terrible retribution, but that
would be my choice - and I'd have to deal with it.
I'm totally against the death sentence for two main reasons:
1. Miscarriage of justices which can never be rectified
(imagine your son/brother/dad killed by the state then found innocent after executiuon?)
2. We preach a civilised society. No-one has the right to take another persons life,
no matter how abhorrent the crime committed.
There are crimes that on the news and I think "kill the f*cker" (especially child-killers),
but really, as a society, we just can't.
I find it too big a subject to discuss in a way SL.
There are many different strands to why people kill and it's hard to put them all in one box and say "Execute them."
And, in a way, that's my point. Is one life of greater value than another that the perpertrator deserves to be executed, whilst another one doesn't?
But the mitigating circumstances of SOME cases need to be heard, surely?
So, do we bring back the Death penalty for all? Or do we leave it to a group of strangers to decide on the merits of each case? Like it's a lottery?
However, for this bastard....I would vote Yes.