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Originally Posted by SuperPseudonym
Yeah. Sooo, you are just going with "doing what the person doesn't want?" I don't really think jail teaches anyone. So what you said, to me anyway, would be like beating your children because they stole something. How about a fair punishment? Death of course!
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The point of jail. To punish and to rehabilitate. Punishment is taking away a person's right to freedom, their right to vote etc. Rehabilitation is the education of the convict into understanding the wrong doing and, in cases where the judge deems their to be little or no chance of rehabilitation, then the convict is not given the second chance of a shortened sentence.
Death is an inhumane punishment, one that no forward thinking, civilised nation would even possibly consider in the present day. The risks involved in taking a human life on the basis that they may have commited a crime deemed worthy of that punishment are simply too high for it to have any possibly positive outcome. One innocent life taken as a result of the death penalty is too many, and innocent lives have been taken as a result of the death penalty. The machismo, flippant attitude to human life displayed by those in favour of the death penalty simply isn't backed up by anything approaching a relevant argument for such a course of action.