dyslexia wrote:I continue to think that its odd to punish people for killing people by killing them.
I agree Dys for several reasons, one of which is this:
It has proved over the years that it has not the slightest deterrent effect, can anyone seriously believe that criminals, before setting out to commit whatever crime, reason it out logically, imagine these scenarios:
maximum penalty - death
Bad guy thinks: right I want my boss dead for firing me, but the problem is that we have the death penalty, and the thought of lying on a gurney and receiving a completely painless injection and drifting off into slumberland is a real deterrent for me.
maximum penalty life no parole
Bad guy: right, now it's not a problem cos if I get caught all they can do is lock me in a cell like a lab rat until I die, forty or fifty years from now, Hey thats no deterrent whatsoever! So I'm going for it!
Britains most prolific hangman Albert Pierrepoint hanged around five hundred people, in his memoirs he said quote:
"I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people"
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