If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
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