Response to Jean Carlo- The Death Penalty

In the case of the death penalty, while yes, taking away the lives of another human can be considered immoral and playing god, those who are against the death penalty also need to look at other issues where the death penalty is enforced but in a way people wouldn't think about. While what Lisa did is inexcusable, and children should not be tortured in that way. When someone brings a child into the world, they are supposed to care for the child and nurture it. However, in Lisa’s case this is inhumane and borderline torture to do this to a child.

With that said I don’t feel that she deserves the death penalty. Time in a correctional facility and the forfeiture of her rights to see the children. Her girlfriend shouldn't be given the rights to the children as she is just as much to blame for the improper care of the children.  She was also around to see this torture and could have stopped it or get them out of the awful environment. However, the death penalty does not apply for this situation, and I do feel like the idea behind why the death penalty was created back in the day has lost its way.

In the times when the death penalty was created, people were put to death for major crimes against the rest of society. These would be murderers, looters, or roaming gangs. The society would decide as a whole who would be put to death, and many times a trial wouldn't occur. However it is not only the members of society that would put someone to death, as the government would publicly hang any who go against them. Many medieval rulers were known for this tactic and this is how the death penalty became wildly known and used. Public be-headings and hangings were a common sight in France. Crimes against the state were not tolerated, even in the sake of trying to create a better life for the citizens.

While many would think none of that has any effect on the death penalty today, they would be completely wrong. Crimes against America happen all of the time and we immediately condemn those who have wronged us to death.  In many cases, people would become angry if I were to claim that one of these enemies of the United States didn't deserve to be put to death. Most of the country would be outraged if criminals such as the terrorist leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden was just put in a jail and not killed for his actions. As he mastermind behind the largest terrorist attack the United States has endured, there was a major outcry from the American public for his head. After the attacks of September 11^th, destroying the twin towers in New York, the citizens of the United States were outraged and a call for Osama bin Laden’s head could not be ignored. The penalty of death was begged for by the masses and there would be a hunt that would last years to follow this tragedy. However, no one ever said it was inhumane or that it was playing god. No one wanted Osama bin Laden to sit in a United States prison, people wanted torture and the worst kind of punishment for his “sins”. However, who could wish these things upon someone, who would want the death penalty put upon someone. That answer to that is not only the United States, but the rest of the world. For the world, Adolf Hitler was going to be put to death and punished in the most vile of ways. Again a man that didn't even commit the crime its self, is the one that the public wants put to death. While they are the brain behind the crimes, they didn't commit the crimes themselves, unlike Lisa. In a world where people want to have their opinions heard, they must think through what they want before they become a hypocrite.