Reblogged from givemeashouttoremeber
The execution of Troy Davis really irked me. If you haven’t kept up with it, give it a couple minutes of your time. The United States has executed yet another man who may very well have been innocent, and I can’t help but feel embarrassment & sorrow. Too many people have been found innocent after being put to death for me to be ok with capitol punishment. It’s tragic to say the least.
I wanted to see what other countries still participate in this shameful act, only to find we are in the company of some unsavory places. In case you geography skills are as poor as mine, the countries marked in red include: China, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Cuba, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, & Syria, among others.
Only one country in all of Europe practices it and that is Belarus.
How is killing a man, regardless of him being guilty or innocent, an act of justice? Isn’t that just stooping down to a murderer’s level? If he was guilty (which I am not in any opinion of) and he killed that officer, then the justice system putting him to death is just as guilty of committing murder and the judge who allowed this to happen is guilty of murder as well. Justice isn’t going out and doing the same acts that criminals do themselves, Justice is fixing the wrong, teaching lessons, reprehending people, having a consequence to their actions, but certainly not going out and killing people. This is so wrong, and disgusting, because it’s no better than what any criminal would do. The fact that the mother of the officer who got kill would permit this, when it’s the exact thing that happened to her own son, is a rather unmotherly quality. I don’t know any mother who would want their child, whether their child is young or an adult, to be murdered, and I’m sorry for her loss, but I also don’t know any mother who would want another human being to be killed, even as a “repayment” of some sort. I don’t know any human who would want that and support it.
This makes me feel sick.
