does it bring the dead back?

Abolish the death penalty?

Why?

Why should we abolish the death penalty?

Some say that there is no proof it deters others from committing crimes. Some say its akin to murder. Most of them say it doesnt bring the victim back from the dead.

I say, bullshit.

I say if you have guts to take someone else's life, you pay for it. If you are greedy enough to traffic drugs into a country with one of the strictest drug laws in the world, you pay for it.

Those who want to abolish the death penalty cry that killing the murderer does not bring the victim back. That of course is true. But lets put ourselves in the shoes of those who have had their loved ones brutally murdered. Perhaps even raped before being murdered. Or in this sick sadistic world today, raped, beaten, tortured and brutally murdered.

After having to find out your loved one is dead, you have to identify the badly mutilated body and then go through the pain of waiting for the police to find the murderer. If he/she is found, and they claim innocence, then you go through the painful wait of years and years of trial.And perhaps maybe learning during the trial (if there is one) that he/she did it because he/she is just sick in the head. So, if we abolish the death penalty, lets just lock him up in prison, whip him, and hope he rots in there for 20 years. All this while the taxpayers pay for his stay in prison. Feed and clothe him/her.

Justice is served?

What justice are we talking about here? Knowing that a murderer lies in prison and for killing someone, all they were punished with is imprisonment? Its not like they are made to do labourous work ala building the Great Wall of China, all they do is sweep the compounds of the prisons, plant flowers, perhaps learn a new skill and half the time, doing nothing in particular but stare at the four walls of prison.

All this while the people who have lost their loved ones suffer the pain of loss, of knowing they suffered before they died and also knowing that indirectly they are paying for the murderer's stay in prison.

I believe, in some cases, its true to stick with an eye for an eye.

If you kill, you hang.

Ah, justice is served.