Who Are You To Kill?
The movie impressed me. Our Happy Hours portrays a life of a prisoner who is adjudged to die.
“If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone a her” (John 8-1). No human being has a right or an authority upon life of others. A person putting another man to death is called a murder. A capital punishment is nothing yet a second naming of murder.
There is only one difference existing between a real murder (that is considered as crime) and a death penalty: one is done through a legal procedure. Yes, a legal procedure to kill a person exists. A role of true government is to protect each of its citizens and to show exemplary behavior as leaders of a nation. A capital punishment goes against human morality and dignity. Another additional homicide is the only result of such punishment.
No human being is perfect. There is no way to repair if misjudgment case occurs. All the humans, including judges, are imperfect beings which always leave possibility of error and blunder. Although rare, these cases resulted by mistrials do occur, and it is impossible to pay the price when such mistakes take place. An innocent man may leave for a false charge, yet absolutely no solution is prepared for his undeserved departure. Controlling rate of crime is considered as the most substantial reason for practicing the death penalty. However, this is not necessarily true. I once read in an article that a stoppage of the penalty actually did not bring noticeable impact to the crime rate. Instead, there are even some odd examples in which Canada and the United States experienced decreased statistics of crime rate after the abolishment. The abolishment and the crime rate have no relations. If there is no good, then why kill?
