The Death Penalty... An interesting topic is it not?
Now some people say that keeping people in prison for the remainder of their lives is much better then letting them be killed within a month or so.
With this, i disagree
Lets look at the facts. While in prison, people may or may not learn their lesson. Murder cases usually give them one life sentance if not more, so they are bound to rot in a jail cell anyways, making the point of "Teaching them a lesson" Moot, as they will never get the chance to apply the lesson.
Now i am sure it is more expensave to shoot somone in the head, then it is to house, feed, cloth, bathe, moniter for 53 years... I honestly don't think so.. If they had simpler ways of death "Bullet to the head, Hanging, slit their throat ECT" Then costs for the Death Penalty wouldn't be so high.
Playing god: Now who can say we really play god? Honestly? We choose who dies because of crimes they commited. Thats not playing god, thats being human. Would you rather feel safe in knowing that a murder is dead, then "Reformed" and on the streets? I honestly don't think so. Reformed or not, psychologicly, people still retain their base nature, that of a killer, and will eventually revert back to it. Look at Saddam Hussein, he commited Genocide, do you really want to try to Revert him to a normal peron? No, he took the lives of millions of people. One life in payment for 1,000,000..Not good Odds there..
Now, some people have said that, "The death penalty won't give any consoltation to those who lost loved ones." Will having them rot in prison give them any consoltation either? I don't think so.
Setting them free? Hardly. You are condemming them to an inevitable life of damnation (For christians) The death penalty just speeds the process up.
There were several other points made, but its time to make mine.
I am in full favor for the death penalty for the following reasons
1. I'd rather see a murder dead then "reformed" and on the streets
2. It would lower the population of the earth, and give more resources to those people who commited minor crimes, and to the rest of the world
3. We may not get to study them no, but we know more then enough about it to make simple descisions.
4. Because there are some people who just need to die.