This is just me going on and on without censoring my thoughts. Feel free to make comments on this if you want to. I will be posting something else a little later.
Why is the death penalty even an issue? Why are people so scared about taking the life of a criminal? Why am I concerned? I wonder how we can be certain that this person deserves to have their life taken from them. Once you have ended someone's life you can not give it back. Do we have the right to decide whether someone should die because they took someone else's life? What about the first life that was taken? Is the death penalty our way of fixing the problem of people killing other people or is it simply to seek revenge? Does one death justify another? How else could we punish the people the commit the most horrible of crimes? What aspects of people's lives affect their opinion of the death penalty? For me it is my religion and the opinions of my parents as well as those of my peers. One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not kill" but this was written under specific circumstances and these must be understand in order to comprehend the full meaning of the commandment. Can you use a scripture reference to justify your thoughts and actions since The Bible is not accepted by everyone? How can one justify executing another? Can it be justified or is this a ritual that we take part in without giving it any thought? This is exactly what I struggle with. If we can't justify something should we even take part in it? This brings me back to the subject of revenge. Does executing the criminal really solve anything or does it simply inspire others to fall down the criminal path?
Things to do for My Next Post
#1) Examine my bias and what I am forgetting
#2) Research aspects of the death penalty that I do not even think about
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