Shoutbox

I dont think we should have the death penalty.

Firstly, there is always the issue of s/he could be innocent.

Secondly, there is the immoral, hypocritical argument, I guess some people could say that its figting fire with fire, but a modern day government shouldn't really be thinking that it is ok for them to kill people, but not okay for other people to kill.

There has also been research suggesting that the death penalty isn't a detterrent for muders and rapes etc...

Also, whatever you might say, the murderer's family are not murderers, therefore killing someone would inflict torument on the people who didn't really do anything wrong.

And I think that it is a far more effective punishment to put someone in jail for 30 years, they will have 30 years in which to think about what they did, 30 years of being seperated from their family and friends.