Convince me I'm wrong that the death penalty is ridiculous. [View All]

[Mike 03]

Speaking as someone who lost a friend who was raped and murdered two decades ago, and who used to be for the death penalty, isn't this getting a bit ridiculous?

There are serial killers on Death Row in California who have been there for almost forty years. There are cases I followed were I practically drooled for these killers to be put to death, but they are playing poker on death row, filing appeals because their cookies are wet. And part of me forgives, and part of me pretends I can forget, but I can't.

I mean, it is over. We need to drop this, for our own sanity. Human beings do horrible things, and we don't make it better by horrifying things back to them.

The anger destroys the goodness in us. We need to keep it for better deeds. If that makes sense.

What is the honest argument for the Death Penalty?