Interview Questions and Answers (summary)

1. Are you for or against the death penalty?
1. Has your view always been the same?
2. What shaped your views?

2. Is the death penalty ever morally okay?
1. Who has the power to decide who lives or dies?
2. Is the punishment suitable?

3. What is a proper punishment for murderer?
1. Life in prison?
2. Death?
3. Or can they choose?

4. Are the people on death row treated fairly?
1. Do they deserve respect?
2. Are they remorseful?

5. Do people feel better after a murderer is killed?
1. If everyone is brothers and sisters, why do they seek the death penalty?
2. Does the death penalty help or cause more pain?

1. I am against the death penalty. I didn’t really have views on it before. My views were shaped while I helped console people on death row.

2. The death penalty should never be used. No one deserves the power to decide who lives or dies, it should only be chosen by God. Life in jail is the only suitable punishment.

3. Life in prison is the only suitable punishment; the death penalty should never be used during any situation. People should not be given the right to choose.

4. People on death row are treated rather well. The guards treat them with respect. The most people on death row are remorseful for the crimes that they committed and want to right the wrongs.

5. People are consoled in the beginning, but soon realize that the killing was pointless. The death penalty is pointless in general.