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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Easy way out?
The Death Penalty: right or WRONG?!
"Two wrongs do not make a right." Many have heard this term before no doubt, and this is my leading quote on the death penalty. -Even if the first wrong included killing the innocent does not make it right to then take another persons life. Don't get me wrong i know people who kill deserve to suffer, however the criminal deserves the proper and appropriate punishment. Because noone deserves to die. That may be a sick way of thinking, feeling sorry for serial killers who murder innocent by-standers like the nextdoor neighbours daughter or the man in the street, But the alternative may be sicker then the death penalty.
To kill someone, to intentionally take a person or persons life can be punishable by death in many countries . In New-Zealand however you can go to jail-for life. Now isn't that worse? Doesn't the idea of sitting in an iron pen surrounded by other crazy inmates but always alone sound punishment enough? Cause that would be worse then death. To many however, the death penalty is the a good idea, its the just cause.
"If you kill, you should be killed." as my friend said.
But where would you draw the line? What age stops you from being killed if you take a life? How crazy do you have to be before its not your fault for killing? Or maybe the biggest flaw is, what if you get it wrong, and a person is sentenced to death who is innocent?
A strong example of this in New-Zealand is 'The Bain trail'.
Unless you've been living under a rock, many of you have heard about David Bain, a man who went to jail for 13 years for the murder of his entire family until he was then re-trialed last year and was found not guilty(wasn't found guilty or innocent but just not guilty) because there was not enough evidence to support the allegations. Whether he did it or not is not the point i'm making, Imagine if New-Zealand still had the death penalty and Mr David Bain was given the rope, and then 13 years later we discover it wasn't him at all, well our justice system have just wrongfully killed someone.
Another point about 'drawing the line' is that in some states in USA or countries around the world only use the death penalty if the 'person' has killed more then once. Well that is a little contradictory, why is one death not enough, what about that one person who lost there life,dont they deserve their killer to be killed too? Because these days you have to be a serial killer to be put to sleep.
The death penalty is all about revenge, so it made sense make in the middle ages when no one had a moral compass, noone cared about life and death, everything was much more simplier. But we are not Barbarians, if someone steals our fruit we do not get their heads chopped off, we have a justice system and it is now considered wrong to kill anyone and in some cases anything. So can't we in the 21st Century see that killing anyone is wrong, revenge is not the same anymore. Bombing the twin towers was wrong, But going into Iraq because the 'enemy' have weapons of mass destruction and destroying many innocent lives is not right either, Cause many of us can now agree that that war was a mistake. So why should the death penalty be any different? No matter how you choose to look at it, killing someone is still taking someones life whether they did it first.
That is just some things wrong with the death penalty but the reasoning i see is that 'what an easy way out'. I'm certainly not saying that dying isn't scary-well its the end of your life. However the murderer never gets the chance to regret, to feel the death and destruction of a family,which he or she has caused.Isn't that the worst kind of suffering not the physical but the mental no matter what you do you have that forever.
However many people believe that once you are crazy enough, and you are no longer thinking straight when you decide to murder that woman down the street because she ignored you or for whatever reason that people kill for.
But once you are crazy enough to do all that, you have left the 'yellow brick road' forever, there is no going back and no remorse and that is probably true or those who are truely psychotic
I however see that some killers (whether they felt remorse or not) would not want to be locked up like an animal. To spend the rest of their days being watched 24/7. Nothing to do but think. No where to be but alone. Wouldn't that be torture? The prisoner has killed someone and they have to live with it, so let them.
Because contrary to what some may think, there is something worse then death, there is a cage.
"Two wrongs do not make a right." Many have heard this term before no doubt, and this is my leading quote on the death penalty. -Even if the first wrong included killing the innocent does not make it right to then take another persons life. Don't get me wrong i know people who kill deserve to suffer, however the criminal deserves the proper and appropriate punishment. Because noone deserves to die. That may be a sick way of thinking, feeling sorry for serial killers who murder innocent by-standers like the nextdoor neighbours daughter or the man in the street, But the alternative may be sicker then the death penalty.
To kill someone, to intentionally take a person or persons life can be punishable by death in many countries . In New-Zealand however you can go to jail-for life. Now isn't that worse? Doesn't the idea of sitting in an iron pen surrounded by other crazy inmates but always alone sound punishment enough? Cause that would be worse then death. To many however, the death penalty is the a good idea, its the just cause.
"If you kill, you should be killed." as my friend said.
But where would you draw the line? What age stops you from being killed if you take a life? How crazy do you have to be before its not your fault for killing? Or maybe the biggest flaw is, what if you get it wrong, and a person is sentenced to death who is innocent?
A strong example of this in New-Zealand is 'The Bain trail'.
Unless you've been living under a rock, many of you have heard about David Bain, a man who went to jail for 13 years for the murder of his entire family until he was then re-trialed last year and was found not guilty(wasn't found guilty or innocent but just not guilty) because there was not enough evidence to support the allegations. Whether he did it or not is not the point i'm making, Imagine if New-Zealand still had the death penalty and Mr David Bain was given the rope, and then 13 years later we discover it wasn't him at all, well our justice system have just wrongfully killed someone.
Another point about 'drawing the line' is that in some states in USA or countries around the world only use the death penalty if the 'person' has killed more then once. Well that is a little contradictory, why is one death not enough, what about that one person who lost there life,dont they deserve their killer to be killed too? Because these days you have to be a serial killer to be put to sleep.
The death penalty is all about revenge, so it made sense make in the middle ages when no one had a moral compass, noone cared about life and death, everything was much more simplier. But we are not Barbarians, if someone steals our fruit we do not get their heads chopped off, we have a justice system and it is now considered wrong to kill anyone and in some cases anything. So can't we in the 21st Century see that killing anyone is wrong, revenge is not the same anymore. Bombing the twin towers was wrong, But going into Iraq because the 'enemy' have weapons of mass destruction and destroying many innocent lives is not right either, Cause many of us can now agree that that war was a mistake. So why should the death penalty be any different? No matter how you choose to look at it, killing someone is still taking someones life whether they did it first.
That is just some things wrong with the death penalty but the reasoning i see is that 'what an easy way out'. I'm certainly not saying that dying isn't scary-well its the end of your life. However the murderer never gets the chance to regret, to feel the death and destruction of a family,which he or she has caused.Isn't that the worst kind of suffering not the physical but the mental no matter what you do you have that forever.
However many people believe that once you are crazy enough, and you are no longer thinking straight when you decide to murder that woman down the street because she ignored you or for whatever reason that people kill for.
But once you are crazy enough to do all that, you have left the 'yellow brick road' forever, there is no going back and no remorse and that is probably true or those who are truely psychotic
I however see that some killers (whether they felt remorse or not) would not want to be locked up like an animal. To spend the rest of their days being watched 24/7. Nothing to do but think. No where to be but alone. Wouldn't that be torture? The prisoner has killed someone and they have to live with it, so let them.
Because contrary to what some may think, there is something worse then death, there is a cage.
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