{"id":11022,"date":"2015-02-16T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=11022"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:17:03","slug":"my-voice-murder-the-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/02\/16\/my-voice-murder-the-murderers\/","title":{"rendered":"My voice: Murder the Murderers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Lowell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"360\"\/><\/div>\n<p>What is justice? You\u2019re strapped down to a cold table, the lights burn your eyes, you can\u2019t see anything. The beeping of medical equipment is the only sound you hear.<br \/>\nPeople come and insert a needle into each of your arms, which will soon deliver a lethal dose of drugs to kill you. Your heart races, and they ask you if you have any last words.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You mutter, I\u2019m innocent, and you feel the drugs release through your bloodstream, you know that in about eight minutes you\u2019ll be dead. Capital punishment, the act of killing someone who has committed murder is unjust.<br \/>\nHow does it make sense to murder someone who commit murder?  I don\u2019t think that sounds just to me, in fact its fairly barbaric.<br \/>\nHow, in a society that condemns violence, do we justify committing an act of violence against these individuals? People claim that the act of lethal injection is painless and humane, but murder is not something we consider humane.<br \/>\nSo lets give it a fancy name, and suddenly its ok. Suddenly our reservations are solved and it\u2019s not something we have to question or ask ourselves if it\u2019s morally fine.<br \/>\nLets call it for what it is, murder.  Do you think we would still be fine with it, if the headlines read \u201cMan who murdered so and so was murdered today by State officials,\u201d would we feel differently about it?<br \/>\nThere has to be some form of alternative punishment life sentences, rehabilitation, or something else we haven\u2019t thought of yet.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not saying that the crimes these individuals have committed are ok, but turning around and doing the same thing in return is not acceptable either. Maybe the saying and eye for an eye leaves everyone blind is something we are ok with.<br \/>\nPersonally I think we have the choice to be whoever it is we want to be. I advocate for love and compassion, regardless of what an individual has done.<br \/>\nCommunity crimes makes you no less human than anyone else. Don\u2019t criminals deserve the same respect and kindness as you or me?<br \/>\nSo lets not murder someone who may have done the same, lets find alternatives that make us less barbaric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is justice? You\u2019re strapped down to a cold table, the lights burn your eyes, you can\u2019t see anything. The beeping of medical equipment is the only sound you hear. People come and insert a needle into each of your arms, which will soon deliver a lethal dose of drugs to kill you. 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