Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, expressed disappointment on Thursday that the man who killed 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 will not face the death penalty
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Who here agrees?
Here is what one of the fathers of one of the victims said after the gunman shot dead 17 kids in school
"I'm disgusted with our legal system. I'm disgusted with those jurors," said Dr. Ilan Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa was one of the murder victims. "What do we have the death penalty for?"
I hear that it is even cheaper to house such criminals for life than it is to put them through the process of killing them if they do agree to the death penalty.
And even though the legal system says the shooter will never get out, in the back of your mind you just know their is a Fetterman like democrat just waiting to reverse that decision and let them out.
If you kill someone you take away from them everything they ever had and ever were, take away everything they have and are, and take away everything they will ever have and ever will be.
You take away their hopes, their dreams, their future, and the impact they may have on people in their lives / future. In turn, you take away what changes those people may have experienced due to elimiating that future meeting / impact.
You take away from their loved ones and friends all the experiences, having the person in their lives, and everything that entails.
Killing someone is no small thing that ends when that person dies. The consequences are like a massive ripple effect through time and people's lives, even those who have not met them yet.
Taking a life is a cruel, horrible fate dealt to both the victim, their families, friends, and others. It is a wound, a scar, the living will carry with them the rest of their lives.
Now multiply that by the number of people who were killed by the murderer.
That being said, IMO, the perspn who took that life owes a debt that they can never truly repay in life. Even if they are sentenced to prison with no hope of parole they still get to go on living, an option they have taken away from others. Too often the one who took the life has their life interrupted for a time by being sentenced to prison but are then released to resume their lives.
What right do the murderers have to a life going forward after they have viently ripped that opportunity, that right, from others? After a the damage they have done to so many?
When an animal, like a bear, kills a person they are 'put down'. Many will immediately argue there is a huge difference between a human being and an animal. They are right - humans have a conscience, morals, ethics, know the value of human life, know right from wrong, and know murder is wrong. If anything, humans should be held to a higher standard than the one we hold that bear / animal to.
There are some people in this world, as well, who are broken, sick, evil, and offer no socially redeeming value.
Do I believe in the death penalty? Yes
Part of me believes murderers should die in the same exact way in which they killed their victims. Part of me wonders why we try to give vile, myrdering people a 'humane' death.
The answer, of course, is because we are better than them, because that is the difference between us.
I believe in spanking a child as part of discipline. Before doing so my own rules were always clear: Never spank in anger, ensure the child understands the rules and the repercussions, and always explain what rule was broken and why rhe spanking was coming.
Similarly, I believe the death penalty should not be carried out due to anger or a sense of revenge but because someone violated a set rule / law they fully understood before committing the act.
In the world we live in today there is hardly any consequences for actions / laws broken...which is why tjings have gotten worse, lawlessness has increased.
In the same way if we do not enforce rules / boundaries with children they will keep pushing them farther and farther to see how far they can go, the out of control crime and anarchy we see today is a result in our govt / society refusing to enforce laws and hold people accountable.
In the same way we discipline our children out of love, holding them accountable for their actions so they are raised to be good, law-abiding citizens it is our duty to enforce laws and hold people accountable.
