Too bad, ur kidding about other's lives... Death Penalty is nothing more than a murder, but made with law support what makes it even worse. By killing murderers ur degrading urself to their lvl, and it's a lack of respect to the human being... Or u don't feel cruel when a women is lapidated just cuz she's been raped and pregnant, as those fucking crazy musulman's do??? Law is not perfect and if u jail a presunt criminal and 10 yrs later it turns out that he was innoccent, u have fucked most of his life but, what if u kill him????? 4 those who think the rate of murders will decrease if the death penalties rised... That's not the problem... Here in spain there's not death penalty and the murder rate is far away much lower than in U.S.A. I think the real problem is tht in ur contry is too easy to get a gun, here u can only get em by the black market (95%of people don't have access to it, cuz he don't know how to get one) and most of those who know where to buy one doesn't do such cuz it's probly "used" and u don't wanna be accused of 13 murders in other country (most of em are imported by mafias who want to get rid of it)
With this i wanna mean that the murder rate u have is a direct consequence to the legislation of ur country... If there are 5000 guns there will be much more murders than if there are 50...
4 ex. here to have a wep at ur house u gotta be militar, police, be death threatened or have a hunting license... U can only carry it if ur death threatened or ur doing ur job (militar, police, security...) and u may get arrested to point with it to anyone w/o a good reason....
U can always get murdered by a knife, and anyways u wouldn't take the risk of murdering each other and spent most of ur life in prison...
There are more solutions than death and joking about death, can hurt others.