Jeremy Irons talks about the death penalty

Transcript:
They are many arguments against the death penalty. It's not a deterrent against the crimes it punishes. Society who uses the death penalty don't have lower crime's rate than those that do. When a country abolishes the death penalty they are not plunged into criminal chaos.
But even if death penalty did reduce the crime's rate, would that then be acceptable?
The death penalty targets the economically disadvantaged, those who can't afford good legal council, those without a voice in society. There is a saying in the US: Capital punishment means that those without a capital get the punishment. Statistics show this is true.
But would it be acceptable if people from all sections of society will executed. Does Killing a rich man makes killing a poor man right. The death penalty is irreversible and results in the death of innocents. When someone is dead, a retrospective pardon is a little to them of their family.
Since 1990 in China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the USA, there have been 51 recorded executions of child offenders, some as young as 14 years old.
Or even if no more innocent or children are killed, shall we tolerate the death penalty?
The death penalty is never acceptable. It abused two of our most basic human rights. Everyone has the right to live and no one should be subjected to torture. The death penalty obviously kills people but it also tortures, physically by the brutal nature of execution, and psychologically by forcing individuals to wait to be killed. They wait sometimes for decades while others are led to their deaths. The horror of this waiting is unimaginable. Human rights are thus called because they apply to all human beings. They belong to all of us equally. An attack on these fundamental rights anywhere is an attack against all of us. The right to life is inalienable. It cannot be given and it cannot be taken away. No matter how terrible a crime, in a world full of uncertainty, human beings are clearly drawn line. A line between what is right and what is wrong. A line between imprisonment and execution. Every individual facing the death penalty who is, whatever they stand accused of, still a human being. How ever much we revil them, how ever much we are outraged by their action, how ever much we want revenge, they are still human beings. They may well have killed and tortured. They crossed the line but do we really want to join them.

http://www.amnesty.org/deathpenalty

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Death
• Penalty
• Inhuman
• Degrading
• Executions

[Draevan13]

I agree. Life is indeed sacred. But if you willingly take a human life, you show that you have no respect for the sanctity of life. You are a menace and you must be stopped. If you kill a man, get a few years in jail, then get out and start killing again, the the blood of those innocents is one the hands of those to cowardly to make the right decision. If you kill, you should be killed in order to save people. Simple as that. Better one person die than many.

[swedanica]

@Draevan13 Should the same apply to drunk drivers whom also kill innocent people?

[whopper652]

In a country where there is death penalty for a murder (not an accidental killing) a murderer knows that for a murder he/she will be killed, just as a person commiting a suicide knows that jumping under the train will kill him/her. It's not the state that kills the murderer, he kills himself with his own decision of committing a murder.

[swedanica]

@whopper652 | Sorry, it's still the STATE or the 12 jurors that makes the FINAL decision. I can't imagine having wrongfully condemned a person to death!

[esawko]

NOT ALL HUMANS DESERVE TO LIVE! 2 WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT!

A bullet is a lot cheaper than housing and feeding these people who "kill and torture"

[swedanica]

@esawko: Want revenge, become a cartoonist!

[fishhand360]

Jeremy Irons has a good voice and his voice is intresting and he is a good speeker and I also like how he explanes this stuff

[HighFlyActionGuy]

@whopper652 While that sounds good on paper, its really naive in real life.

[positronicum97]

i dont agree with him, but his voice makes me want to agree with him

[KIFulgore]

The only rational way to deal with killers, rapists, and career felons is to bring back the idea of a penal colony. Ship them off to a remote island with one rule: don't leave. We're wasting too much money in the US keeping criminals in prison. If they refuse to live by the rules of our society, then so be it -- go live in your own.

[rickcard]

I am against the death penalty only because innocents have and will be there victims all too often.

If not for that I would execute, most murderers, all child molesters, and in reality anyone that looks at society as something to prey upon. Never contributing anything positive to the world only taking and hurting. They would all go!

[paulslefthand]

I always loved Jeremy Irons..now I know why! :D

[paulslefthand]

I've always loved Jeremy Irons...now I know why!! :D

[spaghetti3331]

Well, a life for a life. People are informed nowadays but yet they murder. Why should we waste tax payers money for supervision, expensive prison facilities, food and electricity to keep murderers alife ?

[2devmoran]

man he sounds like scar

[ingareinar007]

Norway stopped this by law in 1902, and the military desth penalty in 1979. Join us!