The Death Penalty or Life Meaning Life

[IAN 2411]

First of all, Thorne, I don't agree with your suggestion that cold-blooded killers should be treated in the same way as vicious dogs: they have rights which must be respected, notwithstanding their disregard for other people's rights. Executing them demeans not only them, but us as well, and it accomplishes nothing.

How can you say they have rights that have to be respected, they should lose their rights at the same time they took away the right of another to live.

Executing them demeans not only them, but us as well, and it accomplishes nothing. I acknowledge that killing them removes them from society and prevents them killing again, but there are other, more humane, ways of doing that.

Demean.

To reduce somebody to a much lower status in a humiliating way, degrades.

Who the hell care if the killer that is being executed is degraded, humiliated, or feels that his status is lowered; and I am damn sure that England’s last hangman, [Pierpoint] never once felt that way and neither would I. And I very much doubt that all those people, that go and witness the executions of the killers of their loved ones in the States, would agree with you either. They don’t go to humiliate the killer, they go to see justice and get closure.

With regard to the point you make about surviving relatives, their loss is sad and the consequences are regrettable. But I don't believe any of the people in the situations you describe would feel adequately compensated by the death of the murderer, and, frankly, if that was all it took to put matters right for them, one must question how seriously affected by the death they truly were .

You must have a very misguided view of mankind, because I don’t think you have a clue what you’re talking about in that paragraph. You are now speaking not for yourself but for all of mankind, and it is a careless remark at the least.