I can not support the implementation of the death penalty in any case. I fail to understand the logic that killing people is wrong, so in order to prevent people from killing each other, we will kill people. When citizens of a country agree to the implementation and use of capital punishment, I believe that on a fundamental level it makes everyone a murderer.
Further, I believe that it is important to view mental illness as equally debilitating as those conditions that affect us physiologically. While the comparison isn't exact, we wouldn't "lock someone up forever" if they killed people due to a heart attack or stroke while driving a car, so I don't think we should "lock someone up forever" if they killed someone during a schizophrenic episode. Yes, I know it's inexact, but in both cases, illnesses led to one person being the cause of someone else's death.
Our sense of justice should also be two-sided. Have we been just to Li if we lock him up forever "in case" he kills again? What if he never would have done? Isn't that also unjust?
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