death penalty

[na_th_an]

Exactly my point. In Spanish, when a judge gives a veredict, it is called "fail", it is something like "The judge's fail is 'guilty'" or "The judge's fail is 'innocent'", assuming that humans can make mistakes. Anyhow, if you are judging someone 'cause he decided that he could kill someone (and that's wrong) and then you kill that person if you find him or her guilty, you are commiting the same crime. "An eye for an eye" doesn't work nowadays, from my point of view. It is just a nonsense from its basis. Who has the will to decide upon another human being right to live?

This is a messy territory, I know. Everyone who has suffered of a kill in his or her family is obviously biased and wants "justice". I just think that there are several ways to apply justice. If you are out of the trouble, you can always think that everyone can make mistakes and probably many people will feel remorseful after that, and that fact obviously changes if you are related to an assassined person. But even in that situation, I strongly feel that a life on jail is far a bigger punishment than death penalty, and it is more "human" for the solely reason that you are not becoming what the offender is: an assassin.