If justice is the goal, but death penalty laws lead to infrequent execution of an innocent person, is the goal of a justice society still met? Does it make a difference to you if the innocent party is your friend or relative?
Is the death penalty's irreversibility so heinous as to make it unjust in all circumstances, simply because it assumes that we will always be correct in our verdicts?
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=292&scid=
http://truthinjustice.org/NJ-debate.htm
2007-10-21 12:16:35 · 15 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What a horrible possibility. It is human nature to make mistakes.
2007-10-21 13:47:40 · answer #1 · answered by Susan S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If US death penalty laws have ever executed a single innocent person it is reason enough to end the death penalty. The idea that executing some innocent people is acceptable if it helps prevent a killer go free and kill other people is a ridiculous argument.
2007-10-21 19:41:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Amnesty International, with the aid of alot of countries including my own N.Z want to abolish the death penalty. For that reason. Life is a life even if it ends another, it is still a life that is going to be destroyed. Think of the death penalty as one ugly chain letter, it never stops and keeps on going. How many people need to die before others realize that it is now an out of date barbaric tool.
2007-10-21 19:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by Valcruel 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
For a while, I thought I agreed with the death penalty. I saw it as a person who murders another life should have his life taken away, but...
I saw this internet picture of a button that said:
"Why do we kill people, who kill people, to show that killing is wrong?"
And it totally blew my mind. It's just an endless cycle of killing if we keep using the death penalty. Life in prison I believe is fair, but directly murdering them just doesn't make any sense to me anymore.
2007-10-21 19:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by The Smile Man 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pr 17:15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— the LORD detests them both.
2007-10-21 19:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I seriously doubt if the rate is 1 innocent person per year. Maybe1 per decade. Although that may still be too high. I think the death penalty is something that should be used more frequently.
2007-10-21 19:20:08 · answer #6 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The fact that anyone is killed is reason enough to end the death penalty. That and through all the appeals it costs the government more money to kill someone than to imprison them for life.
2007-10-21 19:23:32 · answer #7 · answered by risingers01 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I think even one innocent person being put to death at all is reason to end it. It's a barbaric process.
Also, if someone is guilty of a heinous crime, why put them out of their misery. Make them think about it for 60 years in my opinion.
2007-10-21 19:20:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes and that reason is exactly why Michigan outlawed the death penalty about 100 years ago. "No more innocents shall die".
2007-10-21 19:20:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
If thousands die each year because we don't use the death penalty, is that just? What if one of the thousands was a friend or relative of yours?
2007-10-21 19:20:00 · answer #10 · answered by Jeff A 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋