Reply #180: but once you take someone's life, you forfeit your own

[seabeyond]

this is where the arguent doesnt work for me. i hear this often from all. but when i say i know we kill innocent people then this seems to not be AS important. then you suggest that a person who murder only get 20 years is as bad as killing an innocent person.

if taking an innocent life forfeits our own, then it cannot be compared to someone in jail for only twenty years and killing innocent cant be excused for some reason

i guess the thing is...

i dont agree with death penalty. it isnt for reform, or keep violent crime lower.... studies show death penalty state has escalation of violence.

the only thing is it is retribution. vengeance. i can understand someone wanting that when a loved one dies, though it wouldnt do it fro me, i can understand

as a society deciding to have death penalty, then everyone knows possible repercussion. not my personal issue.

BUT... if one is defending the death penalty, i would like them not to be hypocrits with killing and excusing the killing of the innocent we convict.

yes we kill innocent knowingly and we are willing to do that for our vengeance towards those that murder, which makes us not a whole lot different from those we convict.