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The Death Penalty
An article by Nice Guy
Recently I have noticed an alarming growing, amount of people who are
supporting the reintroduction of the death penalty. If you are a
civilised human being you should be afraid, very afraid.
For a start 60% to 70% of murders are when people are intoxicated with
either drugs or alcohol (mainly alcohol). This means that when the crime
was committed the person did not have full control of themselves.
The next question is what crimes should the death penalty be brought in.
Child molestation, premeditated murder, racist killings, rape, child
killings, deaths caused by drunken driving or manslaughter. These crimes
are possibly the worst, so which criminals should be killed. All of
them? I don't think so...
Is killing really a civilised attitude to take. We are the only mammals
to walk on two feet, we have evolved from the primordial slime. Most of
the highly developed sea mammals and land mammals have a society where
everyone is protected. The most obvious example is that of dolphins and
lions, yes lions. Lions although they kill other animals as we do, to
survive they never kill their own. So they show * US * how THEY are more
developed than us.
The next question is how do we kill the person, hanging, lethal
injection, electrocution, the firing squad, drowning, burning, smashing
of person's skull on wall, death by a thousand cuts, starvation or what
ever you can think of. Some of these are particularly painful. If
killing for killing is ever reintroduced I would think that lethal
injection is probably the most humane way.
Another point to notice is that nobody seems to realise that in America
they have to keep people in prison for at least ten years so that the
convicted felons have a number of tries at being acquitted and are
allowed to try to lessen the chances of a wrongful conviction.
Contrary to popular belief there are very few 'plush' prisons. Most
prisons involve inmates staying inside for 23 hours a day and then given
an hour free time. However some of this 23 hours can be spent on
learning qualifications and being taught how to hold down a job. I
believe the main point of prison should be to reform, with punishment so
that victims can feel they have been righted. Also prisons are
unhygienic due to 'slopping out'. Prisons are also dangerous, they have
high suicide rates, offenders who have committed particular crimes (such
as child molestation) are usually tormented and beaten up on a regular
basis.
The few 'plush' prisons which exist are low security and house blue chip
criminals (fraudsters) or AIDS sufferers. The men inside are usually
non-violent. The reason these prisons are 'plush' is because the
facilities are better the main improvement being that there is a toilet
and they have some privacy and are treated like human beings.
To put a biblical note on the whole thing, in the old testament it was
said 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'. But Jesus said 'He who
has not sinned, cast the first stone' nobody is perfect and no punishment
should be so final that the punished should not have a chance to redeem
themselves. Also quoted is 'I tell you to forget the old ways, if
someone slaps you on the right cheek give them the left' and 'If
everybody took an eye for an eye everybody would be blind'.
So to sum up, the death penalty in my eyes is wrong. Everybody should be
given a chance and the education to redeem themselves.
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