[Ruth]

Originally posted by Red Moon
Completely against in all cases without exception it and nobody could change my mind on the matter.

It's just legaised murder by the state and the denial of the state of a fundermental human right, the right to life. It amounts to prenediated cold-blooded killing by state in the name of the people and, is in the case where the victium is a murder, is just as bad as the crime they have comitted.

It makes murders of use all.

Absolutely Red. Death Penalty is just a way of saying "we don't approve of you doing what you did, but we can justify doing it ourselves." There is no way on earth anyone could ever sway my opinion on this. I will never ever support the death penalty.

It's not even that I don't think some of these people probably deserve to die. If Ian Huntley (to use a well known example) ever succeeded in committing suicide, I would not shed tears, but under NO circumstances do I feel that anybody else has the right to decide whether he should live or die. And I don't believe all this rubbish about 'a life for a life'. At some stage, someone has to take the higher ground, and it should be the justice system which does that.