To me murder is almost never justified.

Eventhough one that commits murder recieves a life sentence and the victim's relatives know that he/she is being punished it does not bring back the life of their loved one, so for me murder can never be justified, even if the death penalty was brought back it would make no difference IMO.

Edited May 29, 200619 yr by Sharon Osbourne

Eventhough one that commits murder recieves a life sentence and the victim's relatives know that he/she is being punished it does not bring back the life of their loved one, so for me murder can never be justified, even if the death penalty was brought back it would make no difference IMO.

 

The death penalty should never be brought back, there were several infamous cases - James Hanratty, Ruth Ellis and Derek Bentley, two were innocent, and in the case of Ellis she had been the victim of quite horrendous abuse at the hands of the person she killed, so in her case it was manslaughter and she should have only served 10 years. Yet The Moors Murderers escaped the noose - so that proves that it was totally arbitrary anyway, not in the least bit 'just'.

 

And in any case, as far as I'm concerned the State has no more right to kill anyone than any individual person has, and mistakes are constantly made - there's been countless examples of miscarriages of justice over the past 15-20 years....

 

Eventhough one that commits murder recieves a life sentence and the victim's relatives know that he/she is being punished it does not bring back the life of their loved one, so for me murder can never be justified, even if the death penalty was brought back it would make no difference IMO.

 

Some good points there I suppose -_-

The death penalty should never be brought back, there were several infamous cases - James Hanratty, Ruth Ellis and Derek Bentley, two were innocent, and in the case of Ellis she had been the victim of quite horrendous abuse at the hands of the person she killed, so in her case it was manslaughter and she should have only served 10 years. Yet The Moors Murderers escaped the noose - so that proves that it was totally arbitrary anyway, not in the least bit 'just'.

 

And in any case, as far as I'm concerned the State has no more right to kill anyone than any individual person has, and mistakes are constantly made - there's been countless examples of miscarriages of justice over the past 15-20 years....

 

Agreed.