This topic has been discussed a few weeks/months ago, as some of you seem to have missed it, here are my thoughts and some interesting facts about the matter:


1) removing a life will always break the life of many peoples around, no matter what, a mother and a father are a mother and a father and will always be saddened by the lost of a son or a daughter, no matter what bad thing he could have done, there is also often close friends, brothers and sisters etc. Not only does the sentenced death won't correct at all the situation but it'll just bring more grieving and sadness around and the vindicative feeling, no matter how, is not a healthy thing. (BEfore somebody ask me, NO, I wouldn't want somebody who killed my brother to get killed in return)

2) There is a HUGE part of mistake, more than 135 peoples have been death sentenced and weren't responsible. The reason? judiciary mistake and the fact that most of these peoples were coming from poor environment and couldn't afford a normal lawyer. As you can't overturn it once the person has been executed, I cannot support a system that will create incredible and irreversible consequences, and we all know how the death of a loved one will be eternally painful. Also, Most peoples sentenced to death are Hispanic (80%) and Black (35%), coincidentially, those from the poorest minorities. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf

3) The execution system of somebody is much more expensive than to keep him as an inmate, We are talking 6 times the price of an inmating in florida, for example; Costs of the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center

4), Person who commit a violent crime are way more likely to do it again in a place where the death sentence is applied. The reason? They have nothing to lose as they know that their days are more likely to come to an end, which is a kind of spiral because it enforces some hardcore criminal to become even more hardcore: (See la peine de Mort aux Etats-Unis by Andre KAspi)

So for all these reasons (among others), I cannot suscribe to a system that is more expensive and that causes more harms than good. I cannot neither suscribe to an unfair system where riches have good chance to escape it and simply be life sentenced and where poors have no chances to defend themselves and will more likely walk the thin green line, the whole thing destroying even more lifes around.