Death penalty

As a democratic normal person it is expected to be against the death penalty. And as a thinking empathic person, who has read about the Americans on death row who turned out to be innocent after university students could present facts that proved it, and the recent example in Sweden, where a so called mass murderer, convicted in court of eight murders, turned out to be a druggie, with drugs given to him by the system, and now has been acquitted of six of the eight murders, expecting the other two soon, I am doubtful.

But I've been thinking. Here we are. A murderer. Somebody who without a shadow of a doubt has committed the ultimate of crimes. A murder. He (very seldom she) has taken a life. Taken away the opportunity for the victim to do something, to create something, to excel in something, to feel something, to do something. To exist.

Some people never recover from a loss of a loved one. Why is it really that we have no death penalty, and that the "sentence to life" sometimes only lasts 12 years? The lives that these murderers took aren't never coming back.

And think of the cost of keeping those prisoners. That could be used for care for the elderly, healthcare, cancer patients, kids with deformities, infrastructure or something else we pay taxes for.

It's not like these prisoners are thrown into a cave, living on water and bread anymore (but not a bad idea if you ask me). Most of them in the so called civilized world has tv, access to internet, a proper bed and a desk. They get to exercise, and read books, but they do not contribute to society.

Nah, I have mixed feelings. Is the cost of keeping those murderers in jail worth it? In comparison what you could get for the cost of keeping them there. I should do some research.