I am not debating anyone here or putting anyone down for feeling the way that they do so please don't feel that I am. Everyone has the right to feel what they feel - and who am I to say that they are wrong? I am just explaining my feelings about the death penalty and my conflicting emotions that sometimes allow me to support it, and sometimes be against it.

I have a difficult time debating within myself the justification of utilizing the death penalty. At times, I am a blood thirsty human that believes in an eye for an eye (especially when children are victims) and at other times it saddens me that many in our society celebrates this form punishment. While I believe that he is guilty, I was disturbed to see people's celebatory reactions. Hoots and hollars, dancing and shouting out horray!

This is my conflict - Why is it ok to punish a person who has murdered someone with death? Isn't that another murder? A life is taken without that person's permission too. Is it because the person who murdered decided alone to commit the act and by comparison 12 members of a jury decided as a group that it was ok to use murder as a form of punishment??? I have a difficult time seperating the two, and I think that is why it makes me sad when I hear of someone sentenced to death. In that aspect, I see the death penalty as a sentence and permision to murder someone. I don't see it any other way and in that aspect for me, I think the death penalty is wrong.

I know that there are pros and cons for this, and I can sometimes see both sides because sometimes I feel both sides, but that doesn't make it right.

I am just typing what I am feeling...

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