The 'What Country' question was not in reference to the use of the death penalty alone, but for the expansion of it to cover other crimes. If you want more insight on my question, I kindly invite you to look at the top 10 countries that apply the death penalty. Yes, this is the company that we are in.
With the rest of it, the death penalty needs to be abolished, because the costs involved have proven much higher than housing every death row inmate for life.
I have no problem with an eye for an eye. Then what you are saying is that you have no problem with the cycle of violence continuing infinitely. The cycle of violence cannot be stopped if we do not have just a little 'mercy' in our means of applying justice.
Once one becomes a criminal, he earns his penalty, therefore, it cannot be called revenge. The criminal has earned whatever sentence given him.
To that end is where our views have to agree to disagree.
The criminal has earned his or her punishment for his or her crime to society.
Now regardless of how the death penalty would be applied, I would still be against it no matter what.
But even if I did support an evenhanded death penalty that was not costly --
THERE IS NOTHING FAIR ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY as it stands today.
The ones who would 'deserve to die' are not always punished. The ones who end up dying are the ones who could not afford competent legal counsel. Yes, the death penalty is skewed against the poor and against the non-white.
Moreover, this lack of competent legal counsel has sent many a good innocent person to the chair, the needle, the chamber, to the gallows or to the range.
I for one do not want some overzealous prosecutor killing someone just because he wants to have the perpetrator executed and he wants that person on the stand to be the man or woman who did it. Some of these persecutors..ahem State's Attorneys..want to prove their prowess, and sending someone to death row helps bolster their record among some.
That is far from justice, and over 20 people alone have been exonerated in Illinois alone. That means the states are killing innocent people! That's right - we have blood on our hands.
But yet, some people want this process expanded!?! Where is the justice?
So now - thank God this wrongful and racist practice that is skewed against the poor is close to being illegal. Like I said, I will be glad when true justice is served.