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Originally Posted by willravel
In my humble opinion, the death penalty runs in opposition to the spirit of punishment: to teach a lesson. If someone kills someone else, and is found to be sane, this person needs to be taught that murder is wrong. You can't learn if you're dead. I know what kind of an investment it is to try and teach someone basic morality, but it is necessary to have a functional society.
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What?!
How does life in prison versus a death sentence teach a lesson? Does the person have a chance to use the lesson learned? If they are never let out of prison again does the lesson being learned do any good? What if the criminal doesn't learn the lesson? What about the possibility of the person escaping and commiting the same crimes again?
I am for the death penalty. If the person has done something bad enough to earn a life sentence, then they have done something bad enough to deserve to die. For in both instances you are removing the person from society, permanently. And if your certain enough in the conviction to put the person in prison for the rest of their life, then you should be certain enough to have them exucuted.