Execution?

Question

I personally don't believe in execution. But there is an exception if the person does something to anyone I know. I don't think anyone should ever be executed. Except for the above circumstance. Does this make me a Hyprocrite? Do you all believe in executing even the worst criminals?

Ahh darn it. I can't help it, hate and revenge blind us all, unless we are the most forgiving.

Answer 1

I've got something for you to ponder for the next few days...
You and your neighbor are tied up. You watch the person who basically has control over whether you both live or die. Then you feel a sharp pain in your back. You feel something warm running down your back and you realize it is your own blood. Little by little the pain becomes numbing...until the next strike, stab, or blow. Your neighbor feels the same torment you do. Then slowly the life seeps out of your neighbor until he/she is dead. But somehow you survive. While you're recovering in the hospital bed, and are mourning painfully, mentally and physically, for your friend, you find out they caught the murderer. Now after all the pain and anguish, you find out that person is screaming he wants to live. Do you just say " Oh let him live, he deserves a second chance!", while your neighbor and friend is lying in the cold, hard ground, NEVER to enjoy life again, who SCREAMED for his/her life, but was disregarded like the trash, because you are sympathizing for the perp? Why would you do that? Why would you say it is ok for him to die because he harmed you or your family, but it is not ok for him to die for your neighbor, even though you and your neighbor went through the same physical and mental anguish...except for the fact that YOU survived to live another day. Wouldn't you expect for that person to die like your friend did? It really is a sore subject for me because my aunt was murdered by her boyfriend and he got away with it. I seek no vengeance, but I do believe in an eye for an eye. The offenders have no regards for the victims who rights were taken by them, let the same be for the offender, give him no rights. Sounds harsh, I do agree, but again, the offender DOES NOT FEEL ANY PAIN OR REGRET FOR HIS SINS, he KNOWS what he is doing. He is only sorry and regretful once he is caught...until then...he feels NOTHING!!! So an execution SHOULD be a life altering experience...if you kill, you too shall die for the ultimate sin. Also yes, it would make you a hypocrite...try to be the victim at the ugly end of the stick.

Answer 2

You essentially state:

1) I do not believe in execution.
2) However, I believe in execution if the person being executed does something to an individual that I know.
3) But, if the prior condition is not met, then execution is wrong

Conclusion: This is a hypocritical position. Encarta Dictionary defines a "hypocrite" as "somebody who gives a false appearance of having admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings". You are expressing a relative (subjective) high principle, yet you will are also stating that you would support execution given an equally subjective circumstance. Therefore, your current position is hypocritical and may present a conflict in your current ethics.

In my opinion, there is nothing objectively wrong in government sanctioned and administered execution. However, note that this is still just an opinion. If my mother or father committed a crime that warranted execution and it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and they were issued the number of rightful appeals under current American State and Federal law, then they should be executed without hesitation. As you can see, my position is not hypocritical.

Answer 3

I've posted this before, and will again. I'm not opposed to capital punishment on moral grounds. I'm opposed to it on practical grounds. I think that a life sentence without the possibility of parole is worse than a death sentence. Neither is going to deter others from murder, but, at least the life without sentence is not subject to endless appeals.
I'm sure it is the same in every state, that when one is sentenced to the death penaly, an appeal is automatic. It takes 10 to 20 years to actually execute someone, and, during that time, it is continually in the news. I can't even imagine how that effects the families of the victims. Better, in my opinion, to just throw them into prison and forget them. It worked with Dahmer.

Answer 4

only a hyprocrite?, if you consider a habitual offender a "worst criminal" consider this; a father looses his drivers license he has a wife and small children to support, and he is in a position where he must drive or loose his ability to earn enough money to cover his expenses. So he continues to drive and gets caught. the third time the court hammers him with a habitual offender and he is sentenced to prison. In our society "habitual" can be and is classified as "worst" is this person executable? I don't think he should even be in prison.

Answer 5

use the example of saddam's execution:
this death isn't "kill the head of the snake, the body dies" type, the violence will continue, other countries in the area will continue to be pissed, u.s. soldiers will continue to die (almost 3k), and overall, im aganist the lost of human life, despite what he did in the past. "An eye for an eye makes the world go blind"
killing anybody doesn't make an everybody else safe
(Yes, you are being a hyprocrite by saying that)

Answer 6

A court decides if someone engaged in dastardly acts had done them in understandable provocation, self defense etc or under pathological thirst to fatally hurt the victim in envy or vengeance etc... and decides if a life term of seclusion could revive his conscience or he is too incorrigible to be brought back to normal sensitivities of the society... In the latter case it would be a burden to keep him alive risking the safety of law abiding citizens...

But courts awarding judgements should be totally impartial and independent... It is not possible under dictatorial regimes nor when a country is under foreign control...

Answer 7

Qualifying your position does not make you a hypocrite: claiming to be pro life while you support death is. If you claim to be a defender of life, then you would have to oppose the death penalty in all forms to not be a hypocrite. However, If you don't claim to be for life in all cases then you're good.

basically, a hypocrite is somebody who applies a double standard. It doesn't sound like you do that.

As for me, I oppose the death penalty in all forms for many reasons: too may for me to go into tonight.

Answer 8

I use to oppose the death penalty. But I got tired defending people like the belt way sniper or serial killers.

Answer 9

Execution IS murder! And just 'wanting' to kill someone does not create an exception.

Answer 10

ya i don't believe in execution...even for the worst criminals... but why is it that Saddam was hanged for killing people and bush is still alive...because bush has killed thousands of people in Afghanistan only... so i think that its not only you that hypocrite other people are too.