Originally posted by catch23
Not if it's someone else.
Either way....at least you know that guy isn't going to get out of jail and have a chance to kill again...possibly you D
So you are basically saying that anyone who kills, no matter for what reason, must die because there is a chance that they might do it again.
Bare with me in the following scenario:
You kill someone by accident or in self-defense, but you are still a truly good person and didn't want to kill anyone. Though, no one knows the truth of why the victim was killed and you cannot prove it (sometimes it happens). Now you are sentenced to death for killing someone, because you are in a society that decides that you must be killed, without question, for killing another person. This same society must also prevent you from killing again, just because they said so.
Now you might want to comment that there would be evidence that you are not a true criminal, by definition, or that there would be witnesses, and everything
should turn out fine. That isn't always the case.
But,
without capital punishment you would be given a chance to live your life again, after doing time in prison. Yes, it is wrong that you went to prison in the first place, that couldn't be changed if you couldn't prove your innocense, but at least your precious life couldn't be taken away.
Life is sacred.