Writer's Block: Capital offense

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I'm against the death penalty. I find killing someone to show that killing is wrong is hypocritical. Death prevents people from having the chance of rehabilitation. Keep people in prison without parole if they are incapable of reform (like serial killers). The death penalty doesn't protect people from violence (yes, I am aware that there is violence in prisons. But this means we need to improve security in prisons. It doesn't mean we have to support capital punishment). There's the argument that it can be used in the war against terror. However, It doesn't serve as a deterrent against people like suicide bombers. It can make martyrs out of people (e.g. Timothy McVeigh). Mistakes happen. Judges and juries are not infalllible. Innocent people have been killed through capital punishment, and you can't bring back the dead to life.

Death Penalty: Questions and Answers (Amnesty international):  http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ACT50/010/2007/en/f45ed09c-d3a2-11dd-a329-2f46302a8cc6/act500102007en.html

Use of Death Penalty around the world:http://www.amnesty.org.au/images/uploads/adp/amnesty_international-death_sentences_and_executions_in_2009.pdf

Here are some posts on the death penalty  I found fascinating: http://miketroll.livejournal.com/399799.html

http://bec-87rb.livejournal.com/190189.html

http://peace-froggs.livejournal.com/155466.html

http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/571752.html?thread=41561192#t41561192

List of posts at the lj community talk_politics about the death penalty (Pros and Cons): http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/tag/death%20penalty

I'm certain there was an excellent post on the death penalty by Daniel (baeraad), but I can't find it...

Comments

[baeraad.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I am very much against the death penalty (if someone can not keep from breaking the law, then they must be placed in a controlled environment, i.e. prison, so that they don't hurt anyone else - but they are still citizens and human beings, and the state still has a duty to care for them), but I have never written any posts about it as far as I can recall. Are you sure it wasn't someone else?

[sunlit-music.livejournal.com]

It might have been someone else. I'm not sure. :)