Why do some feel sympathy for someone who was put to death for killing other human beings?

Question

I personally don't, eye for an eye.

Answer 1

I think it is just natural to feel sympathy. Especially for those who have not lost someone close to them in a terrible death.

I myself think the death penalty is needed in some cases. I know if someone killed someone very close to me I would feel this way!

Answer 2

I don't think it is a sympathy issue as much as it is a humanity issue. What resolution will further killing provide? - is a question many would ask. I don't necessarily disagree with an eye for an eye but personally I think the progression of the human race will be limited if we cannot get beyond that type of mentality. How can killing only be wrong some of the time? If there is no further threat to human lives is an execution necessary? I think you have probably opened up a can o' worms with this one!

Answer 3

I don't want to call it sympathy. I agree with the death penalty but at the same time I do not feel anyone should celebrate another person's death...no matter who they are or what they did. In any case I feel sad for the loss of human life, even if it was something they were deserving of.

Answer 4

Some people just don't feel that it's right for one human being to kill another, even if it's as a punishment. Many people were brought up with ideals like this. I know I was brought up in a strict Catholic household and was taught to be deadset against Capitol punishment. But I have to say, now that I'm older, I honestly think that if someone is gonna commit a crime so gruesome as murder, then they know what the consequences are going to be and they deserve death in return.

Answer 5

Killing is wrong. Someone's hands are tainted when a life is taken. The reality is that people suffer a little before death and that is it. Someone jailed for life suffers a life time, always wishing to be free, always visualizing a fantasy world of freedom that is not a thousand times better than what freedom is really like. Life time prison is a much greater punishment and cheaper alternative to killing.

Answer 6

No one should feel happy when a devil is murdered. Death in general is a terrible ending to what life can be, and his death means that if he ever in his life may have had a spark of goodness in him, he'll never find that redemption. Eye for an eye is justice, I agree, but it is nothing to celebrate or feel relief about. There are too many monsters ready to take that throne.

Answer 7

I don't know either If you are talking about Saddam? Asuming you are I'd say, this isn't a case of mistaken identity where DNA testing is going to prove him innocent. This is a man who has killed people, commited war crimes, and terrorized people among other horrible things. In a case such as this I totally agree with "an eye for an eye".

Answer 8

I don't feel sympathy so much as I wish they'd let them rot in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.

I don't think executing a person who's killed other humans is good enough, I mean there's no way that the execution process is anywhere near as terrifying, inhumane, and brutal as what the murder victims experienced in those horrifying last moments of their lives. Here in most states, they give the prisoner a drug to calm them/relax first, basically a close-to-catatonic-state and then adminster the drug that kills them. How is that anywhere near justice for the dead people they violently took out of this world and the left-behind families/friends?

Answer 9

It's that ol' Humanism crap that all mankind is basically good. In the Bible there is a Parable told by Christ about the Wheat and the Tares.
The Wheat represents those who will hear Gods voice and respond, being gathered up by Him.
The Tares are those who will reject God and therefore be thrown into the furnace to be burned.
This illustrates mans free will.

Answer 10

No I have no sympathy for anyone who was put to death for torturing and murdering a much of innocent people.