Capital Punishment.

I am not strongly for or against the death penalty. It has its pros and cons, and depending on the circumstance I can be swayed either way.

I believe that if somebody killed a person, not out of self defence but for whatever the reason may be, then they should as well receive the death penalty. Nobody has any right to decide to kill another person or not. It's just something that you don't do (duh).

Now, if someone killed a person out of self defence...say someone broke into a house, or you needed to protect yourself, then it would be alright to kill the person. Provided these circumstances. It still doesn't make it right to kill anyone, but if you're doing it out of self defence then that could be understood.

Horrible crimes deserve horrible punishments. When the horrible people who kidnap and rape kids, then deserve to go through the same exact pain that they put the child through. This is where it gets kind of wishy-washy. Death just seems like an easy way out of what they did. They don't suffer enough, and I think that they should go through the amount of pain that they've caused other people.

But since the government doesn't believe in that, the worst punishment you can receive is death. So, for now, for the people that deserve the death penalty that's what they'll get. Quick and it's done, and they'll never be able to act however they acted before they ended up on death row again.