Is the Death Penalty Just Revenge?

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]I mean, I but I'm also against the industrial prison complex altogether. I think we that should be abolished in and of itself. But um the death penalty specifically is like to me it just don't as a human being it just doesn't make any sense in my brain that humans would be like, "Yeah, let's kill people."

[00:00:18]Like, they killed somebody, let's do to them what they We hate what they did so much that we're going to do the same thing to them.

[00:00:26]Yeah.

[00:00:26]>> But it's just just because we A lot of people say, "Hey, let's do it." Still my To me it's my mentality at the end of the day.

[00:00:32]>> Yeah, it's it's my mentality. It's it's anger. And I'm Look, you you are a good individual, a good man for that. I I don't [clears throat] know if I've uh made my uh reflection my my self-reflection on getting to that yet.

[00:00:48]Where I I don't know cuz I I feel like if somebody did if something like that happened to my family I don't know. I don't think I would be that forgiving where I wouldn't want the other person to, you know, be on the lock.

[00:00:59]But, you know I'm not saying that I'm not saying that reflexively you don't want to kill somebody that kills You know what I'm saying? Like, that's not what I'm saying. I'm This is You're talking about Like again, you're talking about state-sanctioned murder.

[00:01:16]That is a completely different concept.

[00:01:18]That is an institution in and of itself.

[00:01:20]Right? It's not the same as like vigilante justice or You know what I'm saying? I'm talking about I'm saying we need to be focused on restorative justice.

[00:01:29]And And Jules just said he hit the nail on the head. It ain't going to bring that person back.

[00:01:34]That's not restorative just Killing somebody is not restorative justice.

[00:01:38]It's the opposite.