No government has the right to kill, to kill is murder!
No, to take innocent life is murder.
No government has the right to kill, to kill is murder!
Just look at Europe , where the death penalty has long been abolished everywhere there.
Murder rates there don't even come remotely close to ours. Does that tell you anything ? It should.
Also, every U.S. state which does not have the death penalty has a lower murder rate than those which do !
Our murder rate has a lot more to do with gang wars than with the death penalty or anything else.
If they had good, responsible fathers, then they would be far less likely to join gangs, however the local sheriff's deputy told me about a three generation gang family operating in a nearby town, son, father, and grandpa.agreed. all you have to do is map where shootings occur and it becomes plain as day. perhaps if more of those kids had fathers they wouldn't been to seek out father figures in the form of gang leaders.
If they had good, responsible fathers, then they would be far less likely to join gangs, however the local sheriff's deputy told me about a three generation gang family operating in a nearby town, son, father, and grandpa.
Joining the right gang, the one that has good drug selling turf, can be a good career move, you know.
I'm against the government having the power of life and death over anyone, even a convicted murderer. Throw them in a Supermax and throw away the key.
If, by some miracle, they're found later to have been wrongly convicted, then the key can be found again.
Anyway, with all the appeals, it's actually cheaper to keep them locked up than it is to execute them.