Friday - June 01, 2007
People are Backwards on the Death Penalty
The death penalty is unfair. Recent scientific
evidence has proven that people who were executed or still on death row were and
are innocent of the crimes they're accused
of.
So say those opposed to the death
penalty. Not being a geneticist or expert in DNA, I will accept such claims of
evidence on their face. I have no way to refute
them.
But the conclusion that the death
penalty is unfair is incorrect.
The correct conclusion is that the death penalty
was unfair, but because of science and geneticists, it cannot any longer be
thought to be unfair when it is applied. Now we can know with certainty, no
longer simply "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the guilty party is indeed
guilty.
I have no remorse for those
guilty of capital crimes.
Another
argument against the death penalty is that it is inhumane or immoral. This is
not a very good argument at all, it is an emotion. When a person commits a
capital crime by taking another's life, or otherwise as defined by the
legislature, then no civilized person should have pity for them. This is also
an emotional answer, but that is all that such arguments
deserve.
The only remaining argument in
opposition to the death penalty is that it is unfairly applied to mostly the
poor or minorities. The correct solution to this issue, whether real or
perceived, is to apply the death penalty more liberally when genetic evidence
removes all doubt of guilt.
The
popular refrain that the death penalty is outmoded flies in the face of facts
and modern science. We the people can punish murderers and other criminals by
removing them from the ranks of the living with clearer consciences than ever
before.
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