When will we finally become civilized and get rid of the atrocity that is the death penalty?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. I have a hard time calling any human being a monster.

Even those on death row.

There are highly flawed human beings doing highly flawed things, for reasons we cannot always comprehend. But to call any human being a monster de-humanizes a human being, and that disturbs me. And the death penalty is essentially akin to the idea of pitchforks and torches against Frankenstein's monster, all disguised as justice. People think by killing someone who has done an evil deed, we are somehow killing evil itself, and that's just a flawed, antiquated way of thinking.