@athena said in What do you think of this???:
I believe we have no right to take anyone´s life. Capital punishment isn't based on an ideal of righteousness, but on revenge. Respond to violence with violence, what good is it? It will not calm the pain of the people affected by the crime, nor will it quench their thirst for revenge, because the desire for revenge never dies, it simply equates us with the guilty, we commit their very crimes, with the difference that we are covered by the law, and even so, we believe ourselves morally superior to them.
I kind of feel the same as you and @wildwallflower . When it comes to it if you do something wrong you run the risk of paying the consequences. Even young children are made aware of this from the earliest of times.
For the families hurt (and often torn apart) by such crimes that qualify for the death penalty I can understand the need and desire for revenge, but the fact remains (as @Kakashi mentioned, sort of) that if you take that revenge, that line atonement then the guilty may be losing their life.... but they are also becoming free of the crimes they committed. The families concerned may think, "well that person got what he/she deserved", but I would think it's far more appeasing to know that the guilty will be confined to a 15'x15' cell for the rest of thier lives.