2008-11-28, 09:02 PM
mEanEst Wrote:So what you're trying to say is that we should just leave this people alone and put them in jail? What will that do? It is nearly impossible to change these types of people.
Then they will stay in jail for the rest of their lives because they are a threat to the rest of society. There is absolutely no reason to have the death penalty except either to save money that goes into prison funding (because we all know we can put a price tag on a human being), or to fulfill an immoral abhorrent cycle of retribution. People are incarcerated so that they're taken off the streets and have a chance to change themselves; that's why prisons exist in the western world. The States have released dozens of innocent people from death row literally hours, days, and weeks before their execution; who's to say how many innocent people have been executed because of circumstantial evidence or lack of evidence to the contrary?

