What's your opinion?

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS A DETERRENT TO WOULD-BE MURDERERS

In my opinion, capital punishment is not the best way to punish someone who has committed a crime. I think that criminals such as killers or rapists should be sentenced to life imprisonment, but definitely an 'eye for an eye' is not the solution. Moreover, if you kill them, they just die, but they do not actually 'pay' for what they have done. However, there are cases and cases, for example, I live in Spain and neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment exists there. Although many criminals are sentenced for 3000 years, they can be imprisoned for more than 25 years and this is, from my point of view, really unfair. This year, for example, one of the most cruel ETA terrorists was released after being in jail for 25 years because he killed 30 innocent people in the 80's. He was not even been in jail one year of each victim's life! Furthermore, the first thing he did when he was released was encourage his colleagues to carry on killing! For me, a person who has commited such horrible things and does not regret them should be punished severely, perhaps killing him/her is not the solution, but at least, the fairest punishment is being sentenced to spend his/her life imprisoned.



THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER BEFORE THEY ARE MARRIED

Living together with your boyfriend or girlfriend before getting married is not viewed well by Catholic people, who call it 'living in sin'. Nevertheless, I am Catholic and from my point of view, it is a good idea. In fact, I think that it is better to live with your partner before getting married because it is the best way to realize whether things are going to work between you and him/her. I believe that Catholic people do not think it is a good thing because if you are Catholic you are not supposed to have sex with your partner until you are married, and they think that if you live with him/her, having sex is more likely to happen. The Church and Catholic people in general should update their views concerning this issue because the truth is that nowadays most brides (having lived or not with their partners) should not wear a 'white dress'(concerning what it means for church) on the day of their wedding...