so
so
what
uh how do you feel about capital punishment
uh tough question i mean it it's
i was actually kind of thinking about it the other day someone was talking about it how uh a person who takes someone else's life he was saying should should not deserve the right to have to keep their own life
it's kind of it's it's it's a really you know it's a moral dilemma i don't know um
huh
i think that i i forget what the law is in my state i mean my home state i'm from i'm from Maryland
yeah i have no idea what the law is anywhere i've ever lived i just
and i just
i don't know so
i i personally uh even though
i understand the principle behind capital punishment i don't agree with it ever applying applying capital punishment to anyone
um because i sort of believe that if we've got a person arrested that sure we can uh we can say you know it's a murderer he's done heinous crimes
but we can keep him in jail for the rest of his life and not give him a terribly pleasant existence
and uh there's just no reason to justify killing a person and you know there may be an economic reason but i don't think that's sufficient to justify uh killing someone
if you believe that killing is wrong you you might as well apply that to you know even that stays stays true even if you're punishing someone i know that's how i feel
yeah i mean it kind of seems going back to uh eye for an eye hand for a hand kind of thing
maybe
yeah
i don't know it's like uh
you kind of wonder do you want someone like Jeffrey Dahmer alive or not
oh or or Charles Manson
well
it's just that i feel like they don't really pose a threat if they're imprisoned you know sufficiently and
yeah
you know i i i guess it would be bad if the politics ever changes and they got out for some reason but
i don't see it happening
uh
yeah
like i don't see Charles Manson i think he'll never get out he's
he's probably going to be up for parole in a year or so but he's not going to it's not going to happen
oh yeah
but the thing is you know when these guys get out it can be so quiet you may not notice i mean if the public doesn't hear about it
for some reason i mean the thing is Charles Manson was really publicly well know but
if it's somebody who's you know a serial killer but he never was really in the media a lot then when he gets out he still won't be in the media
this could be
yeah so i you know
uh it could be bad if somebody got out i guess
yeah i i still i think even if they aren't in the media i don't know if it would happen unless maybe it was
uh bureaucracy that got pushed aside
and someone said ah we'll let them out
uh-huh
i don't know someone i don't know i mean i guess there's are probably are small time serial killers that you don't hear about
uh-huh
something um
well there have to be because
uh uh i don't know there's like
well i don't know the numbers but i mean there's at least dozens of capital punishments every year
from what i that's what i think it is
and you know you don't hear about all of those
i don't know um because i think i don't think they actually execute prisoners very too often because there's i mean there's death row
there's a lot of time where uh prisoners are kept on death row for a long time i mean yeah there was uh Ted Bundy
uh-huh
there was uh i mean there was such an outcry to um to execute him because it i mean he was the the crimes he did were just so heinous
um
now i i think that there's it's just such a controversial thing that it doesn't happen too often i'm not so i i don't at least at least i don't hear about it that often
right yeah i don't i don't know either
so
um
nah i don't think there's been an execution in my state in a long time that i know of
right
yeah
and i know that like
um
uh one of the one of the things that that's that's one of the things that the that Amnesty International is against in the United States is capital punishment yeah
they're against capital punishment
oh okay
of any of any kind so that's the one the one thing they have against the United States one of their gripes
well
aren't do a lot of countries countries not have capital punishment
uh
i don't know there might be some that don't
that'd be interesting to find out who doesn't
yeah
yeah
tough to uh
to um what's word i'm looking for uh to justify
right
i guess
i kind of waver i guess sometimes
it's like
someone like Jeffrey Dahmer you kind of want
