| To me the problem is more why people sentenced to jail for life don't remain in jail for life. Is that a collective memory problem? Or maybe because they've been nice and behaved well for 15 years we assume they've paid their debt? No the victim(s) won't come back, so they must stay behind the bars.
Also I think we should allow them to die if they want (euthanasie? don't know the word in English...). I guess after 15-20 years behind the bars I would want to have a rest of it, and we can't either force them to stay alive behind the bars. They took a life, they can give theirs.
But in no way the justice should allow itself to kill somebody. Nobody and nothing should be allowed to kill somebody. The justice is not above the rules. And if you kill somebody, then you should be prepared to spend the rest of your life in a few square meters room.
Anyway. I think there was interesting views in that topic, but nothing made me change my opinion. I'm not saying I will never change it, and people thinking differently than me should not either. We never know what life will bring us.
I may have a son one day, and he may be innocentely murdered by a sick guy. But he may also be innocentely murdered by the justice because he was either at the wrong place at the wrong time (and a lot of people are), and because it would have been either him either the son of somebody who's much more important than me...  |