I'm Pro Death Penalty.
I'm sorry, but there are some crimes in which the only justifiable punishment for it is to forfeit your own life. Mostly for taking the lives of others. There's no way you can't tell me guys like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy (Killer Clown), Richard Ramirez (Night Stalker), John Allen Muhammad (DC Sniper) didn't earn the volts or juice they got.
It seems wild that people use the Bible to argue against it, when there are many verses that showed people should be executed for WAY LESS crimes than murder; people were getting put to death for adultery (which is still punishable by death in Saudi Arabia) in that thing, for fuck's sake. I'm not going that far, but it IS worth noting.
My issue with the US version of capital punishment is the appeals process is too damn slow and convoluted; there's no way guys should be sitting on Death Row for decades; I think that once a person is condemned to die, they should be given five years max and a special appeal division of lawyers at their disposal to either: 1) prove their innocence or 2) get the sentence commuted based on the nature of the crime. Like, someone who kills someone in an armed robbery shouldn't be sentenced to death, but someone who multilates or race-related killers (Dylan Roof) should go down.
I also find it weird when people say the US capital punishment system is barbaric. Clearly, they don't know shit about capital punishment in Middle Eastern countries and China.
Just to compare: the US has only four (4) offenses that are punishable by death: murder, treason, espionage, and trafficing drug in mass quantites (and no one's ever gotten a death sentence for that). China has 65 offenses that will get you executed, and most of them are victimless offenses, like corruption or trafficking more than 10g of heroin into the country. Plus, their appeal process is 30 days. That's it.
Just to be clear, in America you
don't get the death penalty for murder. You get the death penalty for murder while committing a felony. So if you rob a bank and shoot and kill the teller, that's punishable by death. Or if you rape a woman and kill her that's punishable by death. But just murdering somebody over a personal beef isn't punishable by death.
But I am pro death penalty. I think child molesters are worse than killers, drug dealers and bank robbers. I can understand why somebody would rob a bank. It makes perfect sense. That's where the money is. A person who robs a bank isn't abnormal imo. But the problem is when you shoot and kill the teller while robbing that bank. I've spoken to The President of the United States about drug dealers. President George Bush Sr came to my school when I was a Senior back in 1991 and me and my friends had the opportunity to talk to him. It was a surreal experience. He said people don't go to jail for selling drugs (cocaine, heroin, etc.) 9 times out of 10 the reason those people go to jail is because what they're selling isn't cocaine or heroin. It's baking soda, or dirt. That's called manufacturing a controlled substance. He went on to say that most adults do cocaine and heroin but the people that go to jail are the people that say that it's cocaine, or heroin, and it isn't. About 15 years after that conversation I spoke to my cousin who's in the DEA. He said the same thing. People don't go to jail because they're selling cocaine or heroin, people go to jail because what they're selling isn't cocaine or heroin. He went on to say that everybody in the DEA does cocaine and heroin and they hate it when they buy drugs off somebody and it isn't what they say it is. That's who the DEA looks for, not somebody who sells the real thing. I said 9 times out of 10 the reason people go to jail is because what they're selling isn't cocaine or heroin. The other 1 time out of 10 is because they don't report their income on their taxes and they spend the money on hookers and jewelry. If they'd donate to charity they'd stay out of jail. That's how the drug game works.
I can also understand why you might kill somebody over a personal beef. Like if they ripped you off for millions of dollars and you have no way of recouping the money. It makes logical sense to kill somebody over millions of dollars. Especially if the court system can't solve the problem. For example, a rapper that gets screwed out of his royalties that's living in the projects. I can understand why he would kill the record label owner. Not saying it's right but I can understand it.
What I can't understand is why you would molest children. I think child molesters are the ones that deserve the death penalty. I'm a victim of child abuse and I would have no problem pulling the switch on the people that molested me. There's no point in making a child molester or a rapist serve a 10 year sentence and then letting them go. And castration doesn't work either (HIV). Rapists use dildos and strap-ons to rape after they get castrated. The next step is to sew their pussy shut (AIDS), but sometimes that doesn't even work. They can still use a strap-on to rape.
But yeah, some people are just sick in the head and go on killing sprees. I mean, a kid that shoots up a school and kills 20 people (are people still shooting up schools or has it stopped because of Covid?) could be locked up for 60 years or you could pull the switch and save the taxpayers a lot of money. Anybody who is a serial killer or a school shooter isn't going to be rehabilitated and make anything of himself after he serves the 60 year sentence. It makes more sense to just pull the switch.
I'm pro death penalty in the case of rapists and child molestors. (No date rape killings because that's he said/she said, I'm talking about climbing in somebody's window late at night and raping a complete stranger)
And the current system of capital punishment for people that murder while committing a felony (robbing a bank, or rape) makes sense.
I also think people that commit espionage or treason should be executed.
I have mixed feelings about killing a police officer because not all police officers are clean. Some officers are dirty and belong in jail. Like if George Floyd had a knife on him and defended himself I think that would be justified.
