With all of the crime in the world today and all of the criminals behind bars, it is hard to believe that killers’ lives are worth preserving. There are adults raping and murdering babies, grown men teaching their nephews how to rape, kill, chop up and burn women so as to not get caught and women who kill their own children for attention. (This is a mental disorder, but still inexcusable.)

Perhaps it is just my thinking, but why are we worried about making the death penalty as painless as possible when most of the people who deserve to receive the death penalty inflicted so much pain on as many people as possible?

There are many arguments against the death penalty, and I have heard them all. The most prevalent are that it costs more to kill someone than it does to keep them alive, and that killing is against God’s will.

First, I would like to address the argument I find easier to refute. Because of the First Amendment stating that government may not establish religion, there is an implied belief that the branches of our government will not base laws and punishments on religious beliefs. Therefore, any objection from the religious on behalf of whichever “God” they believe in should be void. There is no place for religion in court.

One cannot control the masses by following the teachings of a deity that not everyone believes exists. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone on death row “finds God” immediately before execution. Most of these manipulative cold-blooded murderers never feel remorse, instead using whatever means they can to get a group on their side in their battle for a stay of execution.

I feel a little bad for the people who fall for the “reformed” act. No one kills nine women and mutilates them, only to feel bad about it after living in a large building with a thousand other men, cable TV and a gym. I’m sorry guys, but these prisoners live better than you and I do. Sure, they are denied the choice of mingling with the public, but as a fulltime student with two jobs, so am I. Plus, I have to pay for college.

This brings me to my next point: the price of execution. I am sorry, but perhaps I do not fully understand the point of execution. These murderers have millions spent on them for appeals, lawyers, visitation rights and finding the most painless way to dispatch of those who need to be dispatched of. These heartless people had no concern for their victims’ or their families’ pain, why do we go out of our way to make sure they don’t suffer?

I am not asking that we torture them or publicly humiliate their families. I once read that decapitation is the quickest, most effective and most humane way to put an animal to death. If this is the best way to kill other living creatures, why does our government pay millions to research a way to “humanely” kill people?

The death penalty has worked for thousands of years — what exactly makes our rapists and murderers worth more than those of 400 years ago? I have no pity for humans who intentionally hurt other innocent people. I never will.

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