Should the U.S. Abolish the Death Penalty?

Removing Doubt???????

You just made the good case for abolishment of the death penalty , look at what you wrote. How to make sure we are excuting the right person(s), hello the only way to be sure is to not murder them. There are some evil people in this world who do some some awful ugly things, however we are not God, we do not have the right to decide who lives or who dies in the name of justice.

That being said the death penalty is nothing more than legal murder powered by revenge, not justice. It does not deter anything, it is not cost effective, it cost millions in appeals process, and keeps the survivers of the victims wounds open and exposed. There is no such thing as closure for the families, even if the person who killed their loved dies, the pain of losing their loved one does not go away because someone stuck a needle in the killers arm.

I think keeping the inmates alive serves a dual purpose, first they could be innocent, and second prison is no kiddie park, life if one could call it life is having to remember what they did to be where they are at. No closure for them either, actually it is more punishing than death, because once they are gone they are gone, don't have to deal with their behavior any more. If you ask me death is too good for the killers who are guilty on death row.

Do you know or have you ever been in a prison, not the crap we watch on tv, a real prison? If you had you might think differently about how great the inmates don't have it. There are times when death would be better than life to some of the inmates. They have no future period, and that is good enough for me. If they seek redemption they will have to admit their crimes as well as participate in seeking forgiveness. Life means life is a sentence I can live with, no parole ever.

On the flip side of that coin is what about the people who have been excuted and were not guilty. I wonder if you had to administer the drugs to kill another person, then found out they were innocent of the crime they were put on death row for, how would you deal? Would you say "Yes we will inevitably execute someone who is innocent (but) we should do everyting we can to eliminate that possibility." Therefore that one person life was taken, now we find out he was innocent, but that's the breaks you win some you lose some. What if that person who was being executed was you, and all you can say is I'm innocent, and no body is listening because your the convicted killer who is about to die.