A Progressive Forum should never advocate the Death Penalty.

[Javaman]

285. we are talking about capital punishment.

And I still stand by what I said, I don't believe in killing someone to show that killing is wrong.

I'm taking the larger view as how it effects the general population.

My position isn't only in regards to the bombers, it's regarding all people who are sentenced to death.

And you answered your own question when you asked, "what does a grieving family do?" They grieve.

That may sound harsh, but that's what we as humans do.

If you feel that all people must have some sort of retribution for the death of a loved one, where does it end? If we as a society are to move forward as a civilization, we must stop killing. That's how it works.

And regarding criminals such as these two asshole bombers, yes they killed but are we as a society to continue to lower ourselves to their level by killing them? We, in the general sense, have to be the embodiment of rising above the lowest common denominator and not give over to the easy answer and kill. We have to be better than that otherwise we will never progress as a people or civilization.

Our initial impulse is to act out and get our pound of flesh, but we must strive to better than that and not allow our most base instincts be the law of the day.

Again, there is no better punishment to me, then taking away someones freedoms and putting them in a controlled, 24/7, type of environment where every single aspect of their life is watched and dictated to them for the remaining years of their lives.

There is no amount of convincing me otherwise, I will always be against the death penalty.

Again, as I have said before, killing someone to show that killing is wrong, is a failed logic.