Capital Punishment: Jung the Children Slicer
That’s me. Several days ago, a horrendous, terrific, and unimaginable crime was committed in a not-so-far neighbor of my city. A middle aged man killed a little girl, sliced her into 10 pieces, and buried all of the parts separately (don’t worry there are no images of it:P). And police somehow found few of those pieces, and caught the killer. Is the killer going to be killed? I don’t know, but he is currently being asked questions with serial kidnapping of women in similar area.
This kind of guy pisses me off, but seems like he’s still a human because he showed tears and formally apologized. I spontaneously felt sympathy as I read the Korean article off, because, you know, a special ed. cannot be helped but he’s just the way he is. But this murder left deep, traumatic psychological consequences on the victim’s family and her neighborhood.
After WWI, Woodrow Wilson proposed 14 points not to heavily judge Germany and the Central powers. But there was no way England and France was going hide their vengeance and hostilities upon Germany.
After the WWII and the holocaust, the prime minister of Germany apologized to the globe with tears, and now Germany is treated equal, and was politically ‘forgiven’ for the faults. Should we put the same measures for this killer?
This video gave me lots of sensations about the execution and the order of society.
Its core message of the video is at .. around 1:40 mark.
This video is a parody of Death Note, a story about a Japan’s top national student, Light, picks up a note that can kill anyone you know a name and a face within 40 seconds. He decides to kill off the criminals and the lesser kind of people and he thinks that will create peace.
It actually does. Until Light’s defeat at the end, there are barely any crimes happening in the world. After this mass killer (of the criminals) die, society turns back to its normal state. Pretty ironic.
“But then you will be the only bad guy left”
I really liked this comment by the ghost (supposedly, Ryuk). If law kills off bad people, law’s going to be the only killer left in the world.
“I am the top student of Japan, and I will be the new world GOD”
But he is trying to justify the murder with totalitarian authority, which is the way it is widely done.
Should we leave a government that
accept warm-hearted people it accepts for peace and security purposes?
or is that kind of a ruler
?
These kinds of questions seems to far fetched and too abstract for peaceful me and the world.
Back to the beginning. So should Jung (murderer) be killed? Hopefully they find the most peaceful way for the society.
Video Credit: InvaderZim1000
Photo Credit: Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi obata
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I, for one, don’t believe in capital punishment. I think that they should be made to suffer for their crimes while they are live, because while some people believe they will get their due after death, if they go to hell, some people don’t believe in an afterlife, so they aren’t going to be satisfied.
But, nowadays, prisons are just rent free condos, they’re so nice. It’s not really a punishment in some ways. I just posted something similar to this. http://curbxstomp.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/law-order-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-system/
It’s basically the same thing.
The issue for me, is who is someone to say that someone’s bad? Besides the criminals, who obviously got killed by Light. But who is it that determines the “lesser kind of people”? Is that us? Or is that a higher power?
That is the paradox. Usually, the distinction of good or bad is decided by the higher power. That’s why there are ‘laws’ to determine if we’re on the right track or not.
your response to the execution is, i guess, is a very humanitarian way. But that carries some costs, like you said ‘free condos’ and lots of state budgets to fund the prisons.
From a society, from a fascist or a high ruler’s view, criminals are better if they are ‘removed.’ I learned in history class, that certain death of people creates ‘examples’ so others would be scared and act accordingly to the law. But the problem with this one is that although this is faster at creating peace, it probably won’t last long nor create ‘true peace.’
And even if they are sentenced to death, there is such a backlog in (U.S.) prisons nowadays that they would wait on death row for years and years before being executed. On top of that there are appeals and all sorts of obstacles.
Personally, I don’t think people should be executed. I happen to think that life in jail with no chance of parole would be worse, because they would have to think about what they did for the rest of their life. If they forgot, the tall cold walls surrounding them would serve as a reminder.
Never having been to a prison, I can’t speak to the conditions. Maybe they’re nice, maybe they’re horrible, maybe it varies form prison to prison, or state to state. I’m sure people can adjust to life inside of a prison, but I doubt it would really be enjoyable.
Also, sometimes the convict is executed too hastily. Evidence may turn up years later with new technologies that prove his/her innocence. If they had life in jail (no parole) they could be exonerated in light of the new evidence. On the other hand, once they’re dead, they’re dead. Just saying “whoops!” can’t bring the innocent back to life.
im in 8th garde and i am a student of Mr. Mayo. I was wondering how is the college life?
@Hannah
yeah killing is not the best possible ways for peace. Yeah for humanitarian ways making people ‘realize’ is would be the best way for the societies in the long run.
@lionel
I’m sorry, but I am not a college boy, still high school sophomore :p
I understand and respect your opinion, but I guess mine is different. The difference, I guess, between war crimes of Germany and crimes of a serial killer is that one of them occured during a war. Did you know it was the British that invented concentration camps? In South Africa? Who last punished Britain for its incredible crimes against the Aborigines, against the inhabitants of modern day India and North America, against Africans?
In war, it is the loser that is punished.
But when a special needs student goes on a college shooting rampage and is sentenced to life in jail, is he given the opportunity to improve? Is he, in fact, going to be anything but a drain on the nation’s resources?
No, there is only one way to deal with this problem: at the root. Almost all crimes occur because the killer has had a weird childhood…. whatever… and statistics easily confirm that developed nations, nations with better education systems and more accommodating systems have far lower crime rate than other nations.
So, invest in good teachers and good schools and free education and free counseling and professional psychologists and racism free lives and opportunities for students with special circumstances.
But until then, what are you going to do with the drain on a system’s resources? It is the money that could be channeled into education to prevent further crimes that is being wasted on the feeding of hundreds of people for the rest of their lives, where they will die anyways, rather than killing them now.
Oh and I’m in MUN too =P
Then the question arises of whether it really is cheaper to execute them. Appeals and public defender fees and other bureaucracy costs might outweigh the cost of imprisonment. Is there a definitive, reliable study out there that outlines all the costs to determine which is more expensive?
@aron
the delegate of soojin congratulates and believes that delegate of Aron has mentioned great points that further elaborates the delegate’s post! Delegate agrees that fundings in schools must be provided in order to prevent them from becoming potential criminals. However, the delegate still believes killing would not be the best solution, as nations could bring up more useful solutions such as making mandatory for the prisoners to work, perform public services, or ‘educate’ them to become ordinary citizens.
@hannah
according to my memories, killing off isn’t as easy as it sounded. I heard that there were a lot of paperwork to be done for each executed, and keeping bodies safely was another issue i heard. Don’t remember the exact details…