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What do you think about death penalty?

In my country (Poland), the penalty is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole, I think it’s kind of silly penalty which society has to pay for the maintenance of bastards who had killed her own child. Poland is a member of the European Union it is its good and bad sides. But unfortunately, the European Commission believes in the stupidity of human rights, like what rights should belong to the murderer? Answer, such son of a bitch should not have any rights! Recently I read on the website of the European Commission’s “basic human right is the right to life from birth to natural death” but I think a natural death for murder is on gallows . In conclusion, what you think about the death penalty, whether it’s normal that the murderers be treated as sacred cows.

I’m against it. I live in Texas, and I supported capital punishment for a long time, but the more I learned about it, the more I came to oppose it. In the end, several factors changed my mind:

- Mistakes happen. Since 1973 in the U.S., 138 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA and other new evidence (DNA is not available in most homicide cases). These are ALL people who were found guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” A life sentence is reversible. A death sentence is not.

- Cost – because of the legal apparatus designed to minimize wrongful executions (and the enormous expense of death row incarceration), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute someone than to imprison them for life.

- It is not a deterrent – violent crime rates are consistently HIGHER in death penalty jurisdictions.

- It is inconsistently and arbitrarily applied.

- Because the U.S. is one of the last remaining nations with capital punishment, many other countries refuse to extradite known criminals who should be standing trial here.

- It fosters a culture of violence by asserting that killing is an acceptable solution to a problem.

- Jesus was against it (see Matthew 5:7 & 5:38-39, James 4:12, Romans 12:17-21, John 8:7, and James 1:20).

- Life without parole (LWOP) is on the books in most states now (all except Alaska), and it means what it says. People who get this sentence are taken off the streets. For good.

- Whether you’re a hardened criminal or a government representing the people, killing another human being is wrong. Period. “He did it first” is not a valid excuse.

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