THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

The book just drives me insane.

I created another thread which, this time, tackles capital punishment. Unfortunately, it hardly attracted flocks of enraged, pseudo-intellectuals. However, I am still posting it here anyway.


DEAD MAN, WAITING


I believe that capital punishment defies the true concept of justice. I give credence to the notion that the law of retaliation is not a sound principle of criminal justice and that perpetual confinement is the better option when it comes to penalization. However, at one point, I have questioned the credibility of perpetual confinement and supported death penalty. I thought that probably perpetual confinement is worse than death itself because it denies the convict of his freedom to really live and possibly even subjecting him to condemnation by his family/friends. But then, after a series of cases of people who were put to death and later were acquitted and proven innocent, I ended up declining to consider the idea of capital punishment...


...now, I consider it as nothing but a screwed up, ancient concept of savageness.