I haven’t written in a while, mostly due to overloading myself with obligations and activities. I was wondering what to write about, and instead of writing any old mundane twaddle about things that irritate me, I thought I’d go beyond irritations and write about something that actually infuriates me.
Capital punishment. In a nutshell, a barbaric, medieval practice that I don’t believe can be justified in our world today. Thankfully, in the UK we abolished the death penalty several decades ago, but astonishingly, capital punishment still occurs in the US.
I have a few thoughts on the subject; I don’t want to turn this into a huge discussion, so I’ll lay my thoughts out simply.
In my eyes, capital punishment is completely and utterly wrong, because it is wrong for a human being to take the life of another human being
- “But they took the life of a human being, so they deserve to die themselves!”
Yes, maybe they are a dispicable human being, and yes, maybe they do deserve to die. But NOBODY has the right to kill them. Just as they did not have the right to commit murder, nobody else has the right to murder them. There is a difference between deserving death, and someone having the right to make that happen.
- “But imagine if it was your child who they did that to!”
Well, of course I would want to throttle them to death! Of course my emotions would be running high, I would be willing someone to do to this bastard what they did to my child. That is why I don’t get to choose what happens. Human rights are human rights.
- “But it will deter others from committing crimes”
Nope. It has been proven not to be a deterrent.
Add to this the fact that it has been proven that there have been many innocent people executed and then exonerated (bit too late now!), and I honestly cannot get my head around why people are in favour of capital punishment.
