After much talk on the whole unjust punishmentdeal I came up with my own personal idea and belief on the matter. So, America has a correctional system that is only here to punish people, and provides no psychological and rehabilitative resources for them. So once these criminals have been released back to society more often than not they return worse then they came in, from being exposed to all the horrible things that go on inside the jails.
All this to say what's the point of continuously torturing the criminals everyday with horrible unjust and cruel punishments just, so they can return back into society worse than what they originally came in. If that criminal murdered a child they should be have to death themselves, because torturing them everyday and keeping them alive in horrible conditions to me is worse then just ending their lives once and for all. (That is if people don't change which in this case that is my assumption) I feel like the death penalty is a less cruel and unusual punishment than solitary confinement for decades, because death last a few seconds while solitary confinement for example is continuous torture for that person every single day making that person literally go insane. Also I'm a firm believer in an eye for an eye, so to me death would be a more fair punishment for an offender who takes someone else's life away.
5 comments:
I agree when you say the death penalty is less off as bad than solitary confinement. They would go mad, and they do. Then releasing those insane people into the world among us when they werent nearly as bad as before?
How do you apply the "eye for an eye" thing when someone accidentally kills someone? Do they still deserve to die even though it wasn't intentional? I don't really agree with that mentality because it would imply that murder and guilt is a completely black and white subject with no gray areas. Or maybe you're looking at it differently and I just don't understand where you're coming from?
I think you are right, in this case a death penalty would be less cruel for Victoria. But does she deserve to just "get away" with her death?
What would you say about those people that commit violent crimes but then get rehabilitated? While yes there are criminals who do not change and will continue to do bad, but there are some who change their ways, who regret what they did and want to become a productive member of society.
Another application of "an eye for an eye" in this context would be a case in which a person made another person suffer for an extended period of time before killing him or her. In this case, it would only seem right according to the philosophy of "an eye for an eye" for the criminal to be made to suffer just like he or she made the victim suffer. In which case, the execution of the person would be a mercy killing that is too good for him or her.
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