This question is extremely difficult to answer....there are many different factors eighing on my thought process when i think about it...first, I have my christian faith, which tells me that no one deserves to die, and that we arent apt to decide who does, Judge not lest ye be judged...then there are my morals..influenced partly by christianity and then my rational thoguht...morally i do not believe anyone deserves to die....also rationally i don't believe in the capitol punishment system or any other method of life extinguishment ( i know that's nt a word too tired to correct it) because, taking a life defeats thepurpose of punishment...being that we cannot conclusively know what's on the otherside, as a religious man, i believe that bad souls go to hell at death..goign to a christian school, im taugh that souls can be purified in purgatory, as a rational intellectual i believe that death is a release fromt he rigors of life and that there is nothing after and you simply cease to be...but my mind is conflicted enough over that...in which case death would be merciful and you don not want to show mercy to who u want to punish, if anythign you would want to torture them and prevent them from dying so would u know that they are sufferign not guessing abotu their eternal fate....but in the end, i just think that humans aren't intellectually advanced enough to truly understand death, and we shouldn't kill anybody...

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