In joining the death penalty debate, Gen Y brings a renewed focus on the pros and cons of capital punishment. Y Gen TV reporter Briana Conner reveals what Gen Y thinks about the ultimate sentence.
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About the Author: Briana Conner hails from Sugar Land, Texas, a suburb outside of Houston. She is currently a broadcast journalism major at The University of Texas at Austin, and plans to graduate this May. She considers herself a moderate, and looks up to women such as Oprah, Michelle Obama, and Barbara Walters. Her political interests include healthcare, education, and general public policy issues. She is also a member of the Texas POM Squad and enjoys exercising, dancing, and reading in her spare time.
I believe that if the evidence is overwhelmingly proving that the suspect is guilty of the crime of murder or even violent crimes like rape, the person should get the death penalty. As a matter of fact, it should be fast-tracked. Most of these people sit in prison for far too long milking our tax dollars for food and living, if proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, next Friday is your day.
We are only moving further and further away from wrongly convicting people with new technology and techniques of investigating. So while you may see it happen sometimes, the majority of these death penalty cases are proven before cast.
I might be able to agree with an anti-death penalty person if their reasoning is that these people should never see the light of day again, stopping them from reentering society to recommit these crimes. It is the Utopian attitude that we can rehabilitate criminals and murders and set them free in the burbs and feel like we can trust they are safe that really bothers me…it is a disconnect from reality.