Reply #7: I simply do NOT understand advocates of the death penalty.

[Just Me]

There is overwhelming evidence that a "death penalty" does NOT serve to deter violent crime, does NOT cost less to advance, does NOT provide emotional relief to victims' survivors and DOES VIOLATE A BASIC HUMAN LAW AGAINST IMPOSING DEATH.

Moreover, there is ample evidence that innocent people have been forced to die.

The ONLY purpose "death penalty" serves is VENGEANCE which fails to provide any long-term emotional relief or closure.

Why push "death" in face of these facts?

I simply do NOT understand advocates of the death penalty.

I might add that no living human being even knows whether or not "death" is a punishment or relief from life!!!! If someone murdered my son,...I'd much rather he spent the rest of his living days behind insufferable walls than to end his miserable life. I would want that murderer to suffer through the rest of his life as opposed to ending his misery.