My Blog #6

My belief on the death penalty is to be for it because these are convicted criminals who have harmed and murdered another living human being. I do feel as if lethal injection is too easy because its painless and they have not "suffered" at all. Putting them to death is giving them a reward, not a punishment. I believe in alternatives such as manual labor, working the prisoners like slaves on farms or doing clean up jobs in the brutal heat because they don't have a choice. They need to pay their debt to society in labor by doing jobs no one else would do. For example, if a serial has a need to kill, why not send him/her to war where they can do what pleases them and help the nation in a positive way. If the person dies, in a sense they deserved it but at least they weren't a waste to society. Another example, can be those who get a thrill of killing can be pest exterminators for sewer companies or work in slaughter houses, anything that the nation can benefit from.

My principles do need a little adjusting because these inmates are still human beings, they are not cattle. But they can find someway to help the nation positively until they die either naturally or on the job due to heat exhaustion or something. I disagree with Hook because if a person who kills fifty people doesn't deserve to be put to death, then what conditions does put you on death row? Letting a person simply rot in jail does nothing positive for the society, prison system, nor the inmate. I would rather an inmate die of a heart attack due to working long hard hours than just simply rotting in jail or getting a simple injection.

I commented on Javier Luque's blog http://javiluq.blogspot.com/ and Catherine Alzamora's blog http://catherinedba.blogspot.com/