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Originally Posted by M. Krass
After you've finished deciding from the comfort of your armchair whether this kid should live or die...
(That is to say, it's probably mildly inappropriate to so casually discuss the future of complete strangers based on what you read on Wikipedia.)
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I have refrained from this thread solely based on the fact that I don't know enough about the person at hand to judge his life one way or another. Most of you don't either, and I wish you'd realize that and take it into consideration when you post.
Maddie did bring up something that I thought important for me to say, though. No living, breathing human being has the right to end the life of another living, breathing human being. You have no right to walk up to someone and shoot them. You have no right to walk up to someone and strangle them. You have no right to suffocate someone. Essentially, you have no right to kill another living, breathing human being in any way, shape, or form where you are directly responsible for their death. But apparently, if you are in a high enough position in American government, you can. A justice system of any kind automatically determines something as black and white, right or wrong.
So here's the next essay question I post to you kids:
Assuming that people are not inherently evil (since as far as I know, DNA researchers and scientists have not discovered an 'evil' gene), and since we have proven statistically that the death penalty has not worked as a threat to criminals and in some states the crime rate has gone up since the implementation of the penalty, what is the solution? If you were a governor, would you want millions of Americans protesting you, with the blood of convicted persons on your hands, or would it be for the best? Could you deal with their families and friends afterward?
And more importantly, since this is already the subject at hand... could you have given the order to kill Stanley Williams and live the rest of your life knowing you killed another human being? Answer honestly, carefully, justifiably, and <b>politely</b>.
(I'd answer myself, but I'd be afraid of swaying someone or sparking even more hateful and disgusting behavior as some of you have already displayed in this thread, apparently without remorse. Please remember that this is a public forum, that opinions are tolerated but attacks are not.)