I'm 100% against death penalty, but I guess it's for different reasons than most of you mentioned. I was growing up in the country under the communist regime. Death penalty was at that time way of solving all kinds of problems: from true fighting with criminals to supressing political dissent. We had empty shops - someone was supposed to pay for that, so a man was sentenced to death and killed [three others were sentencened to lifetime imprisonement]. Soviet Union was our biggest friend? So we were falsely accusing members of resistence movement from World War II and killing them in the name of the law.
Of course, after 1989 we apologized their families.
Each government wants more power. Giving it a power to kill its own citizens destroys the last frontier. |