Sadly we live in a time where the death penalty for murder is considered barbarous. It is argued that it is not a deterrent but judicial murder, it has made those who sanction it as bad as, if not worse than, those they pass sentence upon.
And what if we got it wrong, execute the wrong person?
Views like this have been espoused by gutless governments frightened of responsibility, or by people unable to face up to hard facts. A hanged murderer will never kill again.
The death penalty is a response to a crime, not a crime in itself. Yes, on very rare extreme occassions you may in error put innocents to death. However, their number would not be a fraction of one percent of those innocents killed by murderers allowed back into society by softer regimes.
It is all rather simple really, and the urge to understand and rehabilitate such criminals is merely the product of cowardice.
There are laws; if you break them, then there are penalties. No excuses.
Be tough on the causes of crime: criminals.
And what if we got it wrong, execute the wrong person?
Views like this have been espoused by gutless governments frightened of responsibility, or by people unable to face up to hard facts. A hanged murderer will never kill again.
The death penalty is a response to a crime, not a crime in itself. Yes, on very rare extreme occassions you may in error put innocents to death. However, their number would not be a fraction of one percent of those innocents killed by murderers allowed back into society by softer regimes.
It is all rather simple really, and the urge to understand and rehabilitate such criminals is merely the product of cowardice.
There are laws; if you break them, then there are penalties. No excuses.
Be tough on the causes of crime: criminals.
