Reply #62: Who's worked up? [View All]

People who kill when they're angry are the EXACT people who deserve to be locked away forever (for the record, if I killed someone for killing my daughter, I'd fully expect to be imprisoned for it). Fact is, there is zero legitimate reason to MURDER someone. Yes, the law DOES recognize that there are several shades of murder, and we're not talking about the accidental, temporary insanity, or self-defense cases here, we're talking about people who got pissed off, walked over, and ended the life of another human being because they didn't feel like finding a civilized way to solve their problems or were so mentally imbalanced that they simply didn't care. These people, by their very existance, are a danger to society and MUST be kept locked away.

As far as your "angry minority of people dictating our system of justice" quote goes, the polls are very clear. The MAJORITY of people in this country support capital punishment...they not only want to lock them away, they want to kill them. Most of those opposed to capital punishment (including myself), believe that a better punishment is to imprison them for the rest of their lives. Very, very few people actually believe that murderers are deserving of any kind of special pity or mercy. They have destroyed the lives of others, and in so doing have destoyed their own lives.

Except for a wrongly convicted minority, most people who are imprisoned for murder are there because of their own choices. If people don't want to spend their lives in prison, they shouldn't murder other people. It's as simple as that.