Why do we kill people who killed people to prove to people that killing people is wrong, amirite?

cause it just makes fucking sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hardly. Killing is wrong, so we kill to prove that killing is wrong? That defies the purpose.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

nah, not really. people who do wrong must be punished. long time ago, God punished the world by drowning every one for sinning.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But we punish them with the same crime they committed. We commit their crime by killing them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Then let's leave the punishing to God. He doesn't need our help.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

sure, he does.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh that hasn't been proven scientifically.

by Anonymous 8 years ago

I'm not against the death penalty...this is just a good question.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What we are essentially doing is revoking their right to life, just as prison revokes their right to mobility, it is an eye for an eye in the mentality.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know. As said, I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm raising the question, paradox if you will, of why we do that. but keep in mind....did eye for an eye work? hardly

by Anonymous 13 years ago

maybe it serves the purpose as a warning? to help keep control over a society and whatnot.people need to be reminded daily to be accountable for their actions?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Killing them kind of is like giving in to them. Rather let them die of natural causes rotting in jail, don't kill them and let them off easy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that would waste too much money, I would rather just feed them to vigilantes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's more of a punishment, as to say. And it saves alot of money compared to inprisionment.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It actually does not save more money because of all of the lawyers an fees and time that it takes the government to order the death penalty.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It is a humane (in the sense of how they die) way to stop the prisoner from continuing to kill or hurt others in a cruel way.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

To cease the person from killing more people

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its funny that so many people will say its harsher for them to 'rot in prison' prison inmates have more freedoms and luxeries that some people outside prisons. They can have tv, cell phones, internet, whatever food they want, a roof over their heads, and comfortable bed to sleep in and a million other things. Aside from that though, did the murderer give the 7 year old girl he raped abused and killed any choice in what happened to her? Did she do anything wrong? No. If its a matter of 'right or wrong', yeaah, its fucking right. Kill the bastard.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree 100%

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(emi) cyber five.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

this is from the theresa lewis thing

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have a sticker that says that on my binder

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Do you really want a mass-murderer enjoying food, a comfortable bed, clothes, shelter, TV, sunlight, etc.? Prisons even have to give them medical/dental care. It's pricey. Personally, I want them tortured. A serial killer should be forced to take an acid bath. But, that's inhumane and mostly a by-product of hating them for killing innocent people. The death penalty isn't bad. Some people just don't deserve the benefits they could get from rotting in prison. Look up "Ted Bundy". My friend did a report on him. People like him deserve death.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i think we should hang em all up in a tree. it costs the tax payers too much to keep them in prison.

by Anonymous 13 years ago