I'm in favour of it, simply because there's too many of us on the planet and we need to cut down.

Yes they are, you are punishing the person who has wronged you.

No, you're getting personal satisfaction. Revenge and punishment are not equal nor are they interchangeable.

And why exactly can't they be interchangeably?

Don't people get a personal satisfaction from punishing person who did something bad to them even it means killing that person?
Like if somebody killed someone from my immediate family I would not hesitate to kill them, thats me dealing out punishment to somebody who has done something horrible to me and your damn right I would feel happy about it too.

It depends on circumstance each case is individual.

I think that just the death penalty as in Death Row is a waste of a life.That life should be put to good use.

If by the death penalty new drugs/treatments for terminal conditions are investigated found then that is a way that the murder can help the society that they have destroyed.

If I had suffered a loss I would feel better knowing the taker of a loved ones life truly suffered a horrific end as in side effects of testing. Rather than a quick death.

So you're pro-torture? Sadistic much?

Because they aren't simply the same thing.
You aren't getting revenge on a child when you punish them for something, you are just trying to correct their misbehavior.
Revenge doesn't make anything better.

Punishment is the act of correcting misbehavior and ensuring it doesn't happen again.
Revenge is getting personal satisfaction out of causing pain to others.

The latter is a primal urge which borders on sadism.



Human torture is unacceptable and speaks volumes about your mental state.

It would be for the greater good, his death could save thousands, if not millions of lives.