Capital Punishment

             Capital punishment is a topic that brings up deep emotional reactions from those on both sides of the issue and a great deal of conflict for those who want to be on the right side of the issue, but who are undecided about how they feel.
             What is the purpose of the Death Penalty? Is it a weapon of punishment and deterrence? Is it about ethics and morals? Is it about money? Is it about revenge? Is it about religion? Is it about racism? It seems to be about different things to different people. The right of society to punish its members cannot be denied, but how far this right extends, by the laws of nature or the laws of God, has been much disputed.
             The most obvious position taken by proponents of Capital Punishment is that a person who takes a life must be punished to the full extent of the law. There are many innocent people who suffer extreme pain and die every day in this country. The current day fixation on the rights of murderers and the outpouring of sympathy for cold-blooded killers enrages many people. Abolitionists are rightly criticized for claiming that they are motivated to oppose the death penalty by their reverence for human life, when, in fact, the only people that they are preserving are those who display the least of it...the very least reverence for human life. Murderers.
             Murder has no color, class or I.Q. Murder is murder. Victims of murder and their families take little comfort in learning that the perpetrator had a low I.Q., was black instead of white, poor instead or rich. For capital punishment to be applied equally to every criminal, rich or poor, black or white, it must be mandatory for all capital cases.
             It is more expensive to incarcerate a murderer for life than to execute him. And life without parole prisoners face, on an average, 30 years in prison with the annual cost of incarceration between $40,000 and $50,000 per year per prisoner. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. Give a murderer ...

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