death penalty

[na_th_an]

Seker, your question is just fantasy. And the answer doesn't reply a thing. Nobody is gonna put a serial killer next door. They will go to maximum security jails.

Imagine this situation, now: You are out a night with your friends at the country. Then you go for a piss, and while you walk in the dark you stumble with something and you fall upon the corpse of the guy you always fight at school. That same afternoon, in the hockey match, you shouted him in front of 5,000 people that you were gonna kill him 'cause he is such an ass.

Imagine that your beer bottle broke on the fall, and that the guy was killed with another bottle used as a blade. Now you are with a corpse which you promised to kill with tons of little pieces of crystal. You are covered by the victim's blood.

Then someone arrives. You are guilty, by all means, all the evidences point at you. Some time later, you die in the gas chamber.

I know that's a very weirds story, but it can happen. And it has happened.

If instead of the death penalty you were in jail, maybe someday you would have been able to prove your innocence and all you would have lost would be several years, but not your life.

See? Death penalty seems to work well when you assume that "when (s)he looks like guilty, (s)he's guilty". That happened recently in my country. A woman was taken to prison 'cause she killed two girls. Four years later, it has been demonstrated that she was completely innocent. If we had the death penalty, she would have been dead now.

Anyhow, at least in my country, jail is not a punish, but a way to reinsert people in society. I know that's utopic in most cases, but it works here.