Death Penalty

[/hide][/spoiler]I'm in the US, so anything I state is in my view of the United State's system.

The death penalty, in my view, is a violation of the simplest and fundamental natural right: the right to life. As a society, we pick and choose what philosophies to use and the certain points that they are used. The eye for an eye philosophy is outdated, times change and the interpretations of life should evolve along with that. The only idea that is supported by the death penalty is revenge, you kill this guy and you get killed to serve that man justice. The fact is, you can't give justice to a dead man, it just doesn't work. What we can do is protect our current state of being for those of us still here. Rehabilitation should be focused on in the case of a crime committed, as we advance in the areas of psychology we will discover better and newer ways to rehabilitate those in the potential death penalty situation so they can become a productive member of society.

Another note that can, and is used against the death penalty is costs. It costs less to allow a person to live their life in prison than it does to commit to the death penalty. The death penalty doesn't allow for mistakes (mistakes happen, yet another opposition to the penalty) so legal work is extremely high and can take years. Taxpayers end up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in just legal fees, tack on the years spent in prison and the costs of the actual execution and you have a number that wouldn't be easily agreed to if the general public could easily find.