I’m uncomfortable with the death penalty. It causes two major problems:
1) We absolutely cannot, ever again, execute an innocent person.
2) If we doubt the guilt of a convicted person, are we suggesting there is something wrong with our judicial system?
A three-strikes and you’re dead policy is sometimes advocated (though not in such colourful language) and I have some sympathy with it except….
Except that it doesn’t account for cases of gross, burning-in-hell’s-too-good-for-them acts of inhumanity like this. If we had an elected head of state we could defer judgements like this to him or her, but as we do not I think the safest option is to keep the option open until there is (or elected judges…).
Lethal injection
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#1 by Allan Scullion on December 23rd, 2005 - 10:40 pm
Half of me wants to pull the lever and the other half of me thinks that instant death is too good for them. I say subject them to the same treatment they doled out on that poor girl. Every day.
#2 by Deacon on June 24th, 2006 - 5:28 am
Like most people, I feel both for it and against it, depending on the situation and if the person(s) are guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt.