The Death Penalty. How Come?

Murderers, Rapists, thieves, all are just plain criminals. Each criminal deserves to be punished. But to what extent, and by whom? Should one man have a right to control another mans life? What gives him control, or who gives him control. We as individuals, and as a nation have gone to far in our efforts to serve justice.

We have gone to the point that we have no problem taking a mans life. Do you realize that life is the only thing you can take and not give back? You steal a car it can be returned. If you break a vase it can be replaced. If you lose money it can be earned again. But life cannot be earned, brought back, or replaced. It is gone. So why are we so encouraging of this deprivation?

We have taken the roles of God. We now take lives as though it was ours to begin with. Why you ask? In the name of justice. If a man murders a man he can be sentenced to death. How is that punishing him for his actions? It is justifying alright, justifying his actions of murder. If the law is murdering people in the name of justice, what makes the murders unjustified. Individuals can be sentenced to the death penalty for doing something wrong. No one in this world is perfect, and God says that no sin is greater than the other, so technically any women who has ate until she was "full" is wrong, any man who has lust after a women is wrong. As a matter of fact any person who has triggered the needle, or turn on the chair in an execution is a murderer and should therefore be put to death next, if we are going to be fair. The point is no person is right, and no actions are justified. Therefore whole concept of a death penalty is a contradiction to what it was originally set out to do, and what it hopes to achieve.