adrian for someone as attached to his "rights" as you and for a country which acts like a "defender" of the human rights worldwide, support of the death penalty is not normal, if not weird.
the US are supposed to be a civilised western nation, using third world practices, not only within their borders but also in other countries, they invade.
i'm not going to analyse the reasons why death penalty is wrong (most people already know) but i'm going to mention a few. first of all dp is a violation of the human rights (protection from deprivation of life). all people, even criminals, have rights (human rights and political rights).
dp is not deterrent, in many cases innocent people die, more poor (and more blacks) people who cannot afford a good lawyer end up executed.
retarded or mentally ill people are executed. also among the victims there are juveniles. the us is one of the few countries in the world (pakistan and iran are two others) that has executed juveniles since 2000. also the us, again along with iran, china and i think saudi arabia have the 80% or 90% (or somewhere between, i don't remember the exact percentage. these are from a report from amnesty international we did in uni) of executions.
another thing, there are people with a somewhat simplistic thought who support dp because they think it saves them money (let alone their views about morality and human rights) but the whole dp system costs a lot. and if that money was spent on education or on social welfare the crime rates would reduce.
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