Ciaran said:
Rawburt said:
Pally said:
Okay so as an example let's just say Ciaran did something to me that was completely wrong and he deserved to be punished. So I go and kill him.
Now it's wrong for me to kill him correct?
Now let's say I get sentenced for death penalty as MY punishment.
Now what really is the difference here? Nothing. Except for the fact my punishment came to idea in some office? It's the same thing.
It's not the same thing. The only thing that's in common with that is that life is taken away.
Murder is worse than capital punishment.
Yes but let's just say pally didn't kill me, and I got the death penalty for what I did to her, both scenarios will end the same (for me), it's just the executioner that differs. (and also pally isn't a murderer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States#Crimes_subject_to_capital_punishment
There are only a tiny few crimes that don't involve the killing of someone else that receive the death penalty. Treason and espionage were the only one that came to my mind immediately, and how often do those happen now? The last one I could think of was
the Rosenbergs from the 1950s, at the beginning of Cold War paranoia. You also have to remember that the death penalty is not mandatory for those crimes that allow it as punishment, it depends on the prosecutor and jury.
Also, I should probably point out that I'm looking at this from the point of view of a U.S. citizen.