Debate: Capital Punishment: Where do you stand?

[Belle]

I agree with you to say that executing someone can never be the 'right' thing to do, by permitting that kind of punishment I believe we would become somewhat of a 'murderer' ourselves, and as pookster states: the existing posibility of sending an innocent to deathrow would be reason enough to say no to Capital Punishment.
But there, of course, is another side to the medal too: what to do with those ones that are 'evil to the bone', as much as I appreciate your believe in the power of redemption (and we do need the believe that people are essentially 'good'), there are some that are just not 'curable', no matter what psychological help you provide, people who brutally murdered other human beings just because they got some kind of kick out of it ( including children or people of any specific ethnic or religious group) without showing any forme of remorce; is locking them up for the rest of their lives, without any chance of parole not equally as cruel (to the families of the victims and to themselves) as putting an end to their lives?