19-01-2011, 05:10
Ooh -this is going to ruffle a few feathers - anyway here goes. Ed, what I mean by that last sentence is that - are we as a society guilty of murder if we convict a man/woman (who has comitted murder) and execute him/her by 'organised means'. And coming from a country where murder is rife (17000 a year approx/ population probably about 45 million) you would think that I would support the death sentence but I don't. I think the whole concept is completely insane. I can understand, let's say, a father who has lost a daughter becoming totally enraged and going and killing the person responsible for his daughter's death. But I cannot fathom people standing behind a window watching the death sentence being carried out as if it was a theatre performance. And then of course there are the many innocent who have been set up for something they did not do and paid the ultimate price. Not to mention the hundreds of executions in the Middle East for ridiculous 'crimes'. The so-called honour-killings. Three men rape a woman, then say that she enticed them - how can she disprove it - it's 3 against 1 - and she is finally convicted and stoned to death - just so that the family's 'honour' can be upheld/restored. Nuts. I used to be pro-death sentence until I read this book. It changed my perspective/viewpoint completely.