why is it?

Question

if a killer kills someone brutally he is not killed the same way i.e. just hanged.
if someone is stabbed and electrocuted the killer should get the same punishment ? do you agree.

Answer 1

No, I do not agree. The prison system is not built on retribution, it is built on punishment and deterance. Whether or not anyone is actually detered is another matter.

Answer 2

I do not agree that such a thing should take place, even though some criminals are unbelievably vicious and animalistic. As to why this is not done, perhaps it is because the underpinning of punishment is (supposed to be) justice. Thus, a murderer is punished by taking away his life, since that is what he did. The method he used should not come into play.

Even in the Hebrew Scriptures (that part of the Bible commonly referred to as the Old Testament), God’s justice of “eye for an eye, foot for a foot, tooth for a tooth” and so forth did not literally mean if you took someone’s eye, you had yours taken. It simply meant that the punishment had to fit the crime. In some cases, certain crimes were so reprehensible in the eyes of God, they were punished with death even though murder had not taken place.

But if a judicial system were to decide to punish a brutal murderer by visiting upon him exactly what he has done, that system has left the arena of justice and has entered the dark area of torture and vengeance.

Answer 3

an eye for an eye is Old Testament law. God os a God of Grace and Mercy and wishes us to be like him. If the punishment does not meet the crime but is less severe it is mercy. If we forgive and do not punish it is grace.

Answer 4

this was how it usd to happen in the earlier times. remember hammurabis time: an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth?

Answer 5

Yes I do, or they should be in jail for life or death penalty.

Answer 6

If the person is evil because of his behavior toward another person, if you do the same thing to him, you are just as evil. Duh!