Thursday, October 4, 2012
The Death Penalty: Medium
The past few days I have been watching the first season of Medium, the psychic detective TV show. There was one episode in which Allison DuBois (the psychic) was hired to select a jury by using her powers that would ensure a criminal's death penalty. She would read the files and get vibes and people's inner thoughts on the issue at hand and so on. When the District Attorney asked if she was up too it, and would be okay with aiding in his death, she still agreed. She didn't even flinch in her response, which startled me a bit. If someone committed an incredibly horrible crime, would it warrant the death penalty and be considered okay? How do others feel about this?
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This is a very real knowledge issue. Do the actions of issuing, allowing, aiding, voting for, or carrying out a death sentence count as murder? The death penalty as a whole I see as unethical and backwards thinking. "An eye for an eye" is not an orderly way to run society, nor does it really solve any problem! I see the dealth penalty as invalid judgement of someone's value of life. Who are we to judge when others should die? This is just my opinion, I hope I'm not offending anybody!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, the death penalty is confusing. Some believe that taking the life of someone, even a mass murderer, is hypocritical and unethical. Others claim it isn't really severe enough, as nobody really learns anything (I think this sometimes). Sometimes death is not the worst penalty, especially among the desperate who want to die.
ReplyDeleteOn your other point, it would certainly be a bizarre scenario to decide who would most likely sentence someone to death by psychic vibes. I don't know if we have to consider that, but picking a jury should always be random.