YES! - The United States is the only western democracy in the world that still puts its citizens to death.
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NO! - It's not a scar on our criminal justice system. The death penalty deters crime.
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It seems to me that the financial argument alone would make conservatives want to do away with the death penalty. But as we've found out, conservatives talk a good line when it comes to spending, but that's about it.
For those who care to research this, they will find a TON of research backing up the idea that the death penalty does NOT deter crime. In fact, many of those incarcerated for murder have stated the threat of being put to death did absolutely NOTHING to deter them, and if they were to get out, they'd do it again, no question.
And do we really want to give the power over life and death to our government? Ask anyone in our military how well that's working out.
The whole idea of the "death penalty" is hypocritical. If killing is wrong, then killing someone for killing is just as wrong. Interestingly, I find that most of the people who believe in the death penalty consider themselves "pro-life." Hypocricy is apparently a lifestyle choice for some.
The problem is that the are not "pro-life", they are "pro-birth".
It's a shame that that we still have the death penalty. It shows that our conscience as a nation hasn’t grown enough to see the hypocracy of values when we kill others to show killing is wrong. This is another institution that will fall if we are to experience the Great Turning and not the Great Remorse.
As someone who realizes that this country is currently in the middle of a civl war being carried fought by the rich andcororate america against the middle and lowerclass population we need to wake up the public to realise this so theycan ake the side of the ones that stand for tjeqm and bacl them witha strong fight.