Well I had always been against it until this year. Once I asked my friends what their stand was and I was surprised to find out most of them were in favor, and so I started looking up arguments for and against it, and I think I don't have a formed opinion on the issue right now. On one hand you have that some crimes, like murder and rape, are unforgivable and those people deserve the capital punishment. I support that, but on the other hand, if an innocent person is convicted, the government would become a murderer, so what do we do then, kill the government? Pay the family a ton of money? You just can't make up for the death of an innocent. I think it's safer to just use life sentence without parole for those cases, but with that comes more government spending and the risk of them escaping and commiting more crimes... but I think that with good survaillance, good police and good prisons it can work. I think criminals should be rehabilitated if they just stole or mugged or something along those lines, but murderers and rapists must pay for the damage they've done. Sadly, we are not in a position to kill them.
What is your stance on “Death Penalty”?
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Well I had always been against it until this year. Once I asked my friends what their stand was and I was surprised to find out most of them were in favor, and so I started looking up arguments for and against it, and I think I don't have a formed opinion on the issue right now. On one hand you have that some crimes, like murder and rape, are unforgivable and those people deserve the capital punishment. I support that, but on the other hand, if an innocent person is convicted, the government would become a murderer, so what do we do then, kill the government? Pay the family a ton of money? You just can't make up for the death of an innocent. I think it's safer to just use life sentence without parole for those cases, but with that comes more government spending and the risk of them escaping and commiting more crimes... but I think that with good survaillance, good police and good prisons it can work. I think criminals should be rehabilitated if they just stole or mugged or something along those lines, but murderers and rapists must pay for the damage they've done. Sadly, we are not in a position to kill them.