Capital Punshiment

As I sit here and listen to Say it ain't so - MoZella I can't help but to think of the hundreds, even thousands of people whose lives have been taken by Capital Punishment. If you listen to this song it doesn't have anything to do with Capital Punishment of course, it's just what I'm listening as I post this. I was on facebook earlier because I'm currently not in school this semester and well that's what my day consists of before work and my godfather posted a simple question asking if John Allen Mohammad got what he deserved. The question wasn't up for very long, 30 minutes I believe and I wrote this small response saying that he didn't, we're not god and we have no right to say who deserves to live and who deserves to die. In response to this post also I decided to change my status and asked the facebook world, ( well those who are my friends ) if they too disagreed with Capital Punishment, this is where I would meet my new best friend Olivia Cole ( follow her she also has a blog http://rantingowl.blogspot.com/) :D. She also agreed with me and pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. We spoke about how capital punishment is hypocrisy, we as a society condemn those who kill people but then turn right around and kill them= how could this not be hypocrisy? Honestly, who are you to say well he killed someone so he deserves to die, that's not under any circumstance true. Now I'm aware that people could say, " well you don't know how it feels to have someone taken from you by murder" and with all do respect you're right I don't, but I believe in karma as well as GOD and I know that in the end everyone will have to take responsibility for what they did. I believe that the best punishment for those who have taken another life is to give them a life sentence, simply because and as Olivia pointed out there is usually something mentally wrong with people who can take another persons life and they usually don't care if they die, so in a way you're giving them exactly what they asked for. Instead, locking them up for a lifetime they have to sit and think about what they did to get them there and that is definitely JUSTICE in my opinion. It's interesting this conversation even took place because just yesterday at work me and my manager were talking about this government and the corrupt things that take place. I also just caught a glimpse of a article that she posted about Gay Right and that's another subject that I could on about ALL DAY. But i'll save it for another time bloggers. I hope I made a small difference in your opinion about Capital Punishment, because honestly we as human beings do have an instinct for revenge and we have to set self aside and let karma take it's course.