Death penalty should not be abolished
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Editor,
The problem with the death penalty, is that it is not being used soon enough or often enough. Many questions need to be answered by those who oppose capital punishment. To save time, let’s talk about the murderers where there is absolutely no doubt that they shed innocent human life blood. DNA now leaves no doubt. The law, whether it be God’s law, natural law, or common sense law, demands justice. Can or should mercy rob justice?
First, let’s look at what mercy (life imprisonment) entails. Balanced meals, full medical and dental care, exercise rooms, T.V., library, free lawyers, the opportunity to run business from jail. In other words, many are living better than the honest working people on the out side. Why? Even with a sentence of “no parole,” loopholes seem to be found and/or the prisoner escapes, even more dangerous than before.
Most people against capital punishment are all for abortion. Tthis is not a discussion about abortion. What makes a murderer’s life more sacred than an unborn or partial-born innocent human being? Justice is not about revenge, which seems to be a buzz-word of the murderer’s advocates. Then there is the issue of being humane in the execution. How humane was the victim treated?
Next is the issue of cost. Lethal injection should not cost so much, bullets for a firing squad would only cost a couple of bucks, rope is cheap, electricity is reasonable. Executions would act as a deterrent since leniency and psychologists have not helped. Insanity plea? Anyone who willingly and knowingly breaks a law is to some degree insane. What, is the plea for the dead victim, or aborted “unborn?”
Those family members who have lost a loved one to a murderer and chose not to have the murderer executed, have no right to endanger the rest of society. Many are repeat offenders, and burden the taxpayer with the bill of providing a life of luxury albeit behind bars to a killer. Who is paying for the lobbyist and the ACLU to defend them? That needs to be brought out in the open.
Gil Mangels
Polson
