Hello Anna and welcome!

I'm a firm believer in a person rights and in having freedom to live their lives. I am not however, much on justice. By that I mean, how does justice benefit the victim?

For example, take a person that has been abused by another, or even, one that has been injured due to a drunk driver - let's say the drunk driver gets 20 years. How does that help the victim, if that person will be forever disabled and cannot be as before?

My sense of justice differs greatly from our governments. For example, a rapist, a sex offender, a child molester (I'm thinking males here) - I wouldn't send them to prision. I would simply remove the threat.

Castration would immediately prevent the abuser from ever hurting another again. But again, so would the gallows.

Today, we have way too many people that say, we have to be humane and so any punishment we hand out must not hurt the guilty person. I say that is BULL. I say, what about the person that person hurt, or killed? What about THEIR RIGHTS?

So I say, if a person is careless about hurting another person, and or killing another person and taking their rights and freedoms away, we should not allow that guilty person to have any such rights. That they throwed any such concern for their rights and freedoms away just as soon as they took them away from their victim.

I say, take all those such terrible horrible people - those killers, rapists and child molesters, and drop them from the gallows and we will see a big drop in these crimes. Let them feel pain.

I hear people say that capital punishment has never been a determent from crime and they would be right. We don't incoroporate capital punishment enough for it to be effective. But if, every county seat would build a gallows and upon being found guilty, that guilty person be taken to that gallows, not 10 years down the road, but no later than 7 days, and if everyone turned out to watch - if it was broadcast by televisons and radios - you bet it would make these people change their ways in a hurry.

But that's my opinion and it is very doubtful we will ever see it used.

I'm sorry you were treated so - I really am.

Your friend Sam

"You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try."