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Anyone On The Fence About Capital Punishment?
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I have traditionally been in favour of capital punishment though I sometimes waver. Those against it often do impress me with their reasoning and I get persuaded that maybe the state should never execute it's own citizens. Then a case like this comes along and I start to think that sometimes there are such depraved humans that it's a case of disposal of a pathogen rather than execution. No doubt AH will tell me that it's emotive and we should ignore the circumstances. Your Thoughts......
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IMO it is morally wrong to take another person's life, and only justified in extreme circumstances. The State wanting to murder as a form of punishment is certainly not one of them. To allow that is to put the nation on the moral level of it's worst individual, and by association all citizens in that nation at that level too.
Punishment goes with Crime. In any case it's worse than that as the convicted gets a period contemplating what is in store and going through the procedure.
War is an exceptional circumstance as it is either a response to those trying to kill you, or a national/global act that simply can not be ignored nor dealt with any other way. It is not comparable to holding someone and then inflicting death on them.
To answer the OP, yes, I'm on the fence as regards CP.
Basically against it, a recent multiple-rape (not murder) case in nearby Gosport has me seriously wanting to dispose of the perpetrator for what he put his victims through. Also, the thought that he may one day be back on the streets must be quite difficult for them to handle.
As usual when this subject is debated, the majority of posts reflect an attitude that death is too good for such criminals, and good riddance, and I'd be happy to do it, and so on and so on.
But what concerns me, is that this attitude, understandable as it is, indicates a somewhat casual attitude towards the loss of life that execution involves, and I do wonder whether that ability to feel satisfied at the death of someone is really not a mindset that lends itself to a civilised populace.
If murderers are indifferent to the deaths of their victims, what does it say about us, that we can be equally indifferent to their death, in a more considered and calculated circumstance of an execution?
Something maybe to think about?
I get the feeling that though I am probably the only person on this thread that has actually had interaction( and association with) real life murderes that my enqury earlir on went unanswerwred because it CANT be answered..
How the hell could you in all good conscience, execute a man for killing his child sex abussers?
Even if a death penalty were to be carried out only when it was 100% certain the person had committed the offence, that, "certainty" would be based only upon the knowledge at that time.
A couple of decades from now, medical advances might show someone had not been in full control of their actions at the time of a murder because of a specific medical condition or DNA marker.
That would be of no use to a dead person.
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