eye for an eye?

Question

I posted a question earlier about how some people close to me died while their killers only got 15 years. I know some people don't believe in the death penalty but if a criminal gets life in prison, who do you think is paying for their food and everything else? Does the punishment fit the crime? I don't think so. My cousin got shot and it wasn't one time. Try getting shot PURPOSELY in both your kneecaps with an AK47 and then in your chest while you're walking your gf to her car. Is 15 years right for that crime? My friend was stabbed to death (over 50 times) by her jealous ex bf. He's in prison. I'm not sure what's gonna happen to him. Maybe life in prison? If you commmit a horrendous crime shouldn't you die the same way?

Answer 1

Are you talking about the USA? The cost to the legal system of trying and executing a murderer is far more than imprisoning him for life without parole -- which is the usual alternative punishment.

And if you are talking about the UK, forget it. Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms prohibits capital punishment "in all circumstances". No country can be a member state of the European Union without implementing the ECHR, including seemingly that Protocol.

Answer 2

I will answer this from two points of view: society and from the individual.

A judicial system should remove people from society who commit heinous acts of violence. That is what life in prison does. But for capital punishment, there is no evidence that killing a murderer does anything to deter further violence. It just doesn't - otherwise there would be no more murders to report.

The problem with capital punishment is that it is an imperfect system where innocent people have been put to death. Innocent people have died, just as tragic as your friends' deaths. How can society be absolutely, 100% sure -- with *no* chance for error of putting to death an innocent person, wrongfully convicted? It is impossible to be 100% sure. That is why capital punishment by a modern society is wrong.

On the personal level, while the revenge act of taking the life of a person who killed a close friend or family member brings "closure" to your grief - in the end, revenge killing will never, ever bring back to life the person you lost. You know that today, and you know that tomorrow. You will know that when you take your last breath on Earth - a revenge killing cannot replace your own loss. So what is the point? To make you feel better? That is a valid reason to take another life? Only among barbarians.

Look in Iraq - that is exactly what is going on. A Shi'a life is taken, so his brother must go out and take the life of a Sunni to avenge the brother's death. It will never end because killing for revenge can never stop. It is a matter of family (or tribal) pride.

But I guess you are saying that as long as the State does revenge killing, it is ok. You think that as long as there is an element of distance because *you* are not doing the killing - some prison executioner is, it is not revenge killing. I have news for you - it is the *exactly* the same thing.

It takes an *extraordinary* person to forgive another for taking the life of another.

That's why so many people call for capital punishment. We don't have enough extraordinary people in this world.

We have a majority of ordinary people.

Answer 3

I completely agree with the "eye for an eye" punishment system. I think that the prison system is one of the worst things you could do to "stop" crime. The amount of people that end up back in jail is so high it shocking that the government hasn't gotten rid of prisons yet. The "three strike" law shows how badly prisons affect crime. To get the a harsh sentence the criminal has already committed two other jail-worthy offenses so obviously something isn't working. Prison would be better as a punishment if they weren't as nice. I'm not saying prison is a vacation, but it is far from horrible. I mean there's security to try to keep inmates safe, a bed for them to sleep on, three meals a day and plenty of free-time. Criminals sit in prison for decades just getting madder and madder, it no wonder so many go back. Why do we give rapists and murderers basic human rights, when they don't give the same courtesy to their victims. All the criminals should be thrown into a pit and forced to fend for themselves for however long their sentence is. Eye for an Eye works just as well for crime and civil matters.

Answer 4

Normally juries take into account the gruesomeness or the murder scene. Fifty knife wounds should translate into life in prison or the death penalty. Then again, things change from state to state. You may live in a lenient state. Move to Texas, 15 would be at least 16 for use of an illegal automatic weapon in the commision of a felony. Fifty knife wounds would be a death sentence. That is just the way it is.

Answer 5

I agree with you! An eye for an eye. All persons should definately be murdered, exactly the way they murdered their victim.
If that happened, not as many people would murder.
Did you ever notice how most of them wimp out at the thought of being put to death.. My God, What Wimps... It just bothers me when I hear them "Oh no please don't kill me, spare me".
Bull----, did he even think for one minute what that person was thinking about while he was butchering him. No thought, no care. Just me, me, me.......
These people are very selfish, arrogant, ignorant, evil people, and their lives should not be spared.
Did you notice how the people who want to spare these peoples' lives, also think it is okay to kill a baby.....
It is all their fault that the world is so screwed up.
I don't believe in jail time, cause guess who is paying for it, us, the innocent, honest taxpayers.
It seems nowadays, the people that do no wrong are supposed to be punished.

Answer 6

Okay what about that chic who drowned all 5 of her kids?
That Bi-t-ch should be placed in clear tank and dunked until she finally drowns, then revive her a-s-s and do it again, up to 5 times.
Insanity--My a-s-s, Eye for an Eye.
Make the punishment fit the crime. you shoot someone and they die, you die the same way.
If you rape, you get raped, although-- who would do it...lol..and with what, a vibrator i guess..
I still say and Eye for and Eye.

Answer 7

I am not sure. I suggest that you wait until this
person gets out of prison and then go ask him
directly.

Answer 8

You should ask yourself if you would be the one pulling the trigger, stabbing with the knife, strangling. I couldn't do it. Even if it is very costly, I would rather pay and keep someone locked up then kill them. I will let God judge the evil of another. I pray for mercy, myself.

Answer 9

No. I like the three strikes you're out rule.

Answer 10

F**K THAT AN EYE FOR AN EYE FIGHT THAT **** BUT BE CAUTIOUS BTU ITS YOUR CHOICE DO WHAT YOUR HEART TELLS YOU