It's honestly really hard for me to develop a solid opinion on it. Part of me thinks that, yes, if you kill someone, you should be killed (when you do something horrible to someone, it should be done right back at you). Another part of me believes that killing the person would make you just as bad as the person you're punishing by killing. Say a man kills another man, and you're in charge of what to do with him. You're most likely thinking, "well, what this guy did was horrible. He killed another person." So, what do you do? Murder is wrong, so you're going to punish this murderer by murdering him?
There are different sides of the death penalty to look at, and it's still something that I question quite often. It's one of those things that I wouldn't be sure enough of in order to debate with others about it. I just don't know enough about it. There are so many situations and so many factors to consider. The danger of having this person alive, the morality of ending the person's life, who's the real bad guy when the death penalty is used...there's just so much to consider. It seems simple to agree with at first, but it's very complex. Just like everything else is this world, it only makes sense in the way you make sense.
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