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I find it ridiculous how whether it's right or wrong in principle in America almost isn't even a debate ... left and right, men and women, black and white, pretty much every side of American culture is mostly for it. The only real debate against it comes from the execution of innocent people ... other than that, even the activists here would be for it.
I think it's because crime is so high here, and so many people are victims of crime (myself included actually - I've been assaulted at age 4, and mugged once)
They get so angry that they want to forget that a criminal may have some good qualities, and would prefer to think of them all as evil, demonic trash.
It does disturb me how so few (probably like 1 in 5) Americans are opposed to it in principle. Do they ever think about what Ghandi would think of the death penalty, or MLK? I can understand why some people like the idea of putting criminals to death, but I DON'T understand why so many people think it's righteous, holy, nice, and good. It sickens me, sometimes you almost think the only types of people in the world are criminals and the people obsessed with killing them.
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