Do you think it is wrong to execute a potential good person?

Question

To execute a murderer who says all the time(8 years) sorry for the things he has done is not right?
Because the murderer can turn into a good person and if you execute them you would kill a potential good person and that is wrong because the murderer killed a good person(Victim)

I wrote he said 8 years sorry .
How would you feel if you made a mistake and you know that you changed but nobody's listen. It doesn't matter why you made a mistake and it doesn't matter big mistake or lil'

Yes but you would do the same thing if you execute a potential good person because the murderer killed a good person and you wanna kill a potential person(TOO?) It is not fair that a good person is dead -That is why it would be not fair to execute a potential good person.

the family of the murdrer ?

The goverment doesn't care about potential good persons in jail and on Death Row. I think it is not fair...Or...?

Answer 1

It is wrong to execute anybody........who are we to say that a man should die for his crimes? Remember apparently god made us all equal so it is his job to judge not a fellow human being's.

Answer 2

You execute someone for their crimes not if their good or not.

How do you make it right for killing someones daughter after raping her?
How do you make it right for taking away a young boy's mother.
How do you make it right for taking a husband away from a young mother?
How do you make it right for slaughtering an elderly couple because they are old?


You keep saying "potential" good person. why? Potential means that they may be some day? If a person murders then that is a fact not a potential. Locally, we had a woman named Lisa Montgomery. She drove 200 miles, murdered a young pregnant woman, and cut the baby from her stomach. The baby was rescued two days later and she is fine. This woman had been planning this for a few months. She had told everyone she was pregnant, had made fake sonograms, and gained weight. She had been in contact with the young woman on the internet but the woman got spooked. So Lisa created a new identity on the net and was able to meet this woman again on the net and got her physical address. She died 3 weeks before she was to deliver. Should Lisa not be executed because she could POTENTIALLY repent in a few years? You make the call.

Answer 3

I think that state sanctioned execution is wrong. I think way too many people have been murdered by the state already. Regardless of whether or not they are guilty or a "good person", I think if you are repentant and believe in Jesus, you are forgiven. If God will not make you suffer, why should man.

I am not saying this without knowledge. My father has 3 life sentences. I know the pain, but I forgive everyone and everything. I honestly feel that if you are truly sorry, and the family has forgiven you and you have been Saved, no matter what happens to you, you will be okay.

The death penalty is WRONG!!!!!!

Answer 4

This all depends on why and how we punish people. If we punish people for what they done, then it doesn't matter that this criminal is sorry or even changed.

But if our system is not a PUNITIVE just REHAB system, then the criminal should be set free once rehabilitated. Our system is somewhere in the middle. We send criminal to jail / prison for crimes done. But we reward them for "good behavior" and early release when the person seem to be no threat to the society. But then there are certain crimes so heinous, that we (the society) feel must never be forgiven (like multiple murders). And the society feels that even letting the murderer live out their life in prison is still too much reward.

Think of it this way - there are many rapist who are NOT serial rapist. So given after the first rape, the non serial rapist will NEVER do it again, should the rapist be set free? Of course not.

So this person you mentioned is NOT being executed for being a bad person. He is being punished for the crime (no matter what he has become).
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One writer below says that if a person is forgiven by God he should be forgiven by man. I am also a Christian but this is a wrong understanding of the Bible. Jesus did NOT free the thief on the cross who were being executed with him (even though one of them believed). Jesus also said "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's". That was said in the context of the tax but it applies to other parts of our social responsibility.


Good Luck (and good question).

P.S. This isn't necessarily what I believe. This is what was explain to me once by a lawyer.

Answer 5

An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth.
Do on to others as You would have them do on to you.
This Say's it all, The victim isn't able to kill this person back, so now someone else has to execute them and to me that still leaves a victim, The Executioner!

Answer 6

Most criminals will gladly "I'm so sorry" with horror-stricken expressions, if they think it will give them a chance to get off the hook. How do you have any idea that they're honest? Criminals generally have shown dishonesty to begin with... Wouldn't you feel awfully bad if those crocodile tears made you release him, then you found him over the body of another child he'd just brutally murdered?

Answer 7

Just because he says he's sorry, it doesn't mean he is.

It really depends on the crime. Was it premeditated murder? Probably was if he's on death row. If somebody has the ability to plan out a murder and follow through with it once, they have the ability to do it again and are not a good person.

If it was a crime of passion, where, say, his wife was getting it on with the mailman and he walked in and killed them both, then hey, crap happens and then I feel bad for the guy.

Answer 8

Yes , because apotential good person can be taken to confessions and say their sorry for killing some one but if the person kills someone again they might put him in jail or prison.

Answer 9

They don't deserve a second chance just like their victims don't get a second chance. Please remember the victims and justice that needs to be given them. I don't care if they are a potential, what they did is unforgiveable in my opinion. How would you feel if it was your sister, mother, wife, child that got murdered, would you want them to have a second chance or would you like to kill them off? I personally would like to kill that person myself.

Answer 10

to decide whether to execute a person will have to depend on the seriousness of their crimes. If they killed another person, then yea, life for life.

Answer 11

Can't do the time, don't do the crime. I am in full support of the death penalty. Good people don't kill others. It is about as black and white as you can get.