Have a Death Penalty confession?

[HEyHEY]

This morning I was lying in bed when the alarm turned on the radio. IT was just as the news was being read. I'm against capital punishment. But when they read the story of the little girl in Florida my first thought was "I hope they fry that bastard."

That doesn't mean I'm pro-death penalty, I was just suprised at myself.

ANy other non-capital punishment supporters ever have that happen?

[Pithlet]

1. All the time.

I think that is a perfectly normal, rational response. But, I don't think that is not the response that justice should be based on. That is why I'm against the death penalty. It's not that I don't understand or agree with those feelings. I think the two can be separate. I know exactly what you mean.

[absyntheNsugar]

9. Thanks - excellent point!

My gut reation is always kill the m*****f****r but this is not a just and humane response...the purpose of the legal system is to rise above the primal instinct.

[brainwashed_youth]

2. me 2

Ya, it happens to me. Hell, it happened today when I learned that the sarasota girl was killed. but I try not to let the heat of the moment overcome my long term convictions

[Loonman]

3. Usually in the case of extremely brutal murders

Where you wonder how someone could do such a thing, and when it involves a child, I am guilty of supporting summary execution with extreme prejudice.

Ya gotta admire the stones of the Chinese who shoot you in the head and then bill your family for the bullet.

[Dookus]

4. all the time

I think it's a natural, visceral reaction. But I don't think we should base our justice system on it.

[polmaven]

5. Sure!

We're human. There are people out there who are poster children for the death penalty. Some people make my convictions against it very difficult to maintain.

I still do maintain them though,because, after a lot of soul searching and prayer, I still do not want the state to murder another person in my name.

Two wrongs will never make a right, even with "new math". For me, it is wrong...period, the end.

[terrya]

6. It's happened to me twice - Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer

Wisconsin doesn't have the death penalty. But his crimes were so evil...I wanted him dead.

As for Manson...again, pure evil. And I actually get kind of nervous during his parole hearings. I know there's no chance in hell he'll ever be paroled....but, still.

Terry

[moof]

7. never

Not that there is any hard evidence to back this up but
it seems like the willingness and example of the state
to commit cold blooded murder might be contributing to
the overall cheapening of life. It might not have made any difference in this case or even the majority of cases but it seems like if everyone agreed that no human beings should have their life ended without their consent and it was to become a taboo it seems like more victims would be left alive.

[XNASA]

8. Nope. Honestly, I've never felt that way.

My reasoning is, anyone who kills anybody else, is mentally ill.

I can't see the point in killing crazy people. Now.....I'd seriously consider eliminating them from the gene pool. But taking a life? I'd have to be crazy to think that.

[mdmc]

10. I got mugged once

and thought that I might kill the kids that did it. Revenge is a very negative emotion, because it masks its evil so well. Kinda like pride. Evil with a good image spin.