most prisons arent even that bad these days.. they got gyms, basketball courts, pool tables, not to mention the taxpayers' money goes towards feeding that person and keeping them in prison for their lifelong sentence.
I 100% support capital punishment. not even necessarily in execution, but as deterrence.
for example, in saudi arabia the punishment for stealing is getting your hand cut off. as a result, nobody ever steals. and then i look at canada, where my brother has been mugged many times and the cops didnt do fuck all. i am sick of the justice system trying to hard to give criminals so many rights.
its deterrence. its human nature to be selfish and evil, and i believe the only way to control that is to have people fear the consequences.
just my opinion tho
While I can't say I see stealing as deserving that kind of a harsh punishment; I must say I have a similar theory, a theory that the only method of obtaining peace is through fear. As sad as that sounds, many humans have so much evil in them, not all, but many. Because of the selfish and Self-Superior nature that all humans can potentially posses, it is not unreasonable to suggest that a majority of these humans will be able to justify anything to themselves, regardless of laws, and general social values. But this type of human is also a very weak type of human, fear could consume them fully, which, although they would not really become good people, they will more often than not choose not to act upon those evil intentions.
In short, I do agree with the death penalty, although as an Australian it has never been a reality for me. I can see both sides of the argument, and I feel as though we all have similar values when it comes to rejecting crime, however, I also feel that there is a point when we spit into either category, and we each justify that in our own ways, not just to ourselves, but to others.
In the short of it all, here is my belief:
People who ruin lives, and take lives deserve to have their lives taken away. This only includes rapists, cases of child molestation and murderers (I suppose there would be a few other cases but I haven't thought about that). I feel that the mental scars left from genuine rape (NOTE: I do not mean "taking advantage of a drunk girl"), as well as molestation are often deep enough to ruin whole lives, Think close to home for a moment as opposed to thinking with cold logic about this scenario: Your mother/brother/sister/etc was severely raped, and murdered. What does the culprit(s) deserve?
Think about that for a moment, now think about how it would impact your life, how would it impact your mother's life? Now, I hope most of you can, as opposed to looking at these situations inside of a box, look at how catastrophic they can be. I'm not asking you to agree with me, but just understand what I'm trying to say.
As for the whole order of events that is Killed, then proven innocent. I can't really say a lot. I feel as though the best resolution I can see at the moment would be to keep these people in prison for some years, and then put them to death, this is absolutely not a perfect method, but it would dramatically lower the amount of innocents killed.
Now, its late here, so forgive any grammatical or formatting errors please.
Also, I'm aware there are a few things I probably forgot to address, but if someone brings it up, I will give my opinion.
Thanks =3
EDIT:
Although I do think that there are instances of people who should die to save future victims I would never trust a system or person to be able to judge correctly on this as systems are prone to flaws and people are susceptible to emotion, bias and false information. So there shouldn't be capiital punishment. Although on this subject has anyone read the Death Note series?
I do agree that the world needs a better system if the death penalty is to be used.
And yes, I love Death Note, its actually very relevant to this now that I think about it =D
