Capital Punishment?
...I truly cannot decide rather capital punishment is a just action. Many claim everyone has the right to live, but is this privilege abolished when they intentionally take another live? There are many other problems with capital punishment such as erroneous data, and a biased trial.
There was a recent story in my local newspaper about a man that may be sentenced the death penalty. He kidnapped his ex-girlfriends five year old boy and drove him to a secluded area where he burned him alive. His reason for committing the crime was because he thought that if he killed his ex-girlfriend’s child she would break up with her boyfriend and come back to him. This is a typical psychopath. Does this man deserve to live? Scenarios like the one above make me believe that on rare situations capital punishment is just. This man will never learn or understand what he did was wrong. There will never be an ounce of remorse within his blood. Do we really need a heartless body walking our streets or leeching off tax payers? Perhaps we need to reconsider what justice is, is justice for the dead, for the victim’s family, or should it be for society.
In regards to this man you speak of, I was about to say he is definately a candidate for the death penalty, hands downs no question. However, my viewed changed when you said he thought that he did this the girl would come back. This is not right thinking and puts all sort of shades of grade back into the issue. You can not use capital punishment on the mentally ill... you could put them in a psych ward till they are better, some would say that is a fate worse then death, but at least its a kind of life that keeps us safe.
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hmm.. interesting view, but how would you deal with a pschopath? One can not just place a conscience into a body. other mental illnesses like depression and bioplar can be treated with medications, but how does one treat a psychopath.
You have heard of pleading insanity right? Well the rule, I believe, is if found 'crazy' you are sent to a psych ward but can not be released till you are fixed. Some people are not fixable and stay forever there. Others could be fixed in record time. Accomodation is crazy, some people say they should do away with that because it could provide a loop whole.
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I am in general opposed to the death penalty, mostly because of the system we have in place. I don't think most murder cases are black and white, and there is too much in those shades of gray to allow us to kill a person. Some may seem pretty straight-forward, but how can you be sure that bias isn't getting in the way of the verdict?
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He does deserve the death penalty. Anyone who is that sick and has no remorse for what they did really has problems. He should be evaluated about what he did. If he just needs counseling and treatment maybe he can have life in prison. It all depends on what the jury thinks. In my opinion, a person that burns a 5 year old alive is a very heinous crime.
This man will never learn or understand what he did was wrong. There will never be an ounce of remorse within his blood.
I think that's being unfair. A lot of people in prison who have committed similiar crimes realize what they did was wrong. Many of them live with guilt for the rest of their lives. Don't be so quick to assume that this man is to far away from being fixed.
Perhaps i am being unfair. i should have written a more clear in-depth blog. i was pondering over the question of how to deal with psychopaths in our communities( people like Ted Bundy)
I understand. I'm just a huge fan of rehabilitation, if we used it more we might have less crime in the system.
The problem is is that people who are true phsycopaths and sociopaths are compleatly chemicaly unable to feal remorse of any kind. They are manipulative, compulsive liers, and cannot sympithise (sp?) with other people, because they are too absorbed with themselves. You cannot rehabilitate them, or treat them. Many people who are clasified as sociopaths and phsycopaths can exist well in society, it is only a few that are killers. Peter Woodcock (latter Peter Kruger) grew up in a nice adopted home, but grew up to be a killer anyway, and was in mental institutions for years. What do you suppose they should have done with him?
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When dogs turn violent we destroy them. It does not matter if they did it because they were evil or because of some genetic flaw caused an otherwise nice dog to snap mentally (cocker spaniel syndrome) or they were bred and raised to be vicious or trained to fight or overwhelmed by a diesase like rabies that drives them mad. Whatever caused them to be violent, we destroy them. We simply will not tolerate the potential for that kind of violence to continue in our midst.
I think the same principle applies. When a person viciously murders somebody else, I'm not really interested in their motivation. I want the mad dogs to be put down.
This argument just doesn't work. I'm not against the death penalty, but what you are saying can't be used in today's society. If a 12 year old child kills another person, we can assume they know right from wrong. Do we destroy them? In most cases, a jury won't. In my mind, there should be no difference in a 12 year old and a 40 year old if they comit the same crime.
So...it's okay to put a dog down for killing a person (or, in some cases, simply existing), but it's not okay to do the same with a human?
Why is that?
And how, exactly, does his argument not work? It seems to me that your comment here only reinforces the fact that his argument does work, or at least should.
Neither a human nor a dog always know right from wrong at the time of the incident. Both a human and a dog have the potential to be rehabilitated.
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Dragon Wolf- You are still one of my favorite bloggers. Nice hearing from you. My point wasn't that it shouldn't work but that it won't work. Jurors aren't going to see it the way we do.
I never have and never will agree with or believe in the death penalty. What gives the government the right to take someone's life? All this does is make you as bad as the criminal.
I think that if he had enough reasoning as to think that if i do A then B will Happen so C can be Acheived shows me He was Quite capable of comeing up with a Sequence of Events which in Turn tell me he had knowledge of what he was about to do to me the death sentence is justified