Reply #8: What would be a worse punishment.... [View All]

[terrya]

A quick, painless death by lethal injection...

Or life in prison...WITHOUT parole, without cashing in on your notoriety. Your freedom gone forever. Everything you have is gone. A lifetime to ruminate on your crime.

I think the latter.

I can understand the pain of families who have lost a loved one to a senseless murder. I really can. But putting someone to death isn't going to bring that person back to life.

We, as a society, should be better than this.

I know there is a seeming hypocrisy to the idea of "it's barbaric to take a life with the death penalty, but legal abortion is ok". I have my qualms about abortion. But abortion is a private decision between a woman and her doctor.

The death penalty is just morally wrong. At least to me.

Terry