Families Of Parkland Shooting Victims Give Emotional Impact Statements - NBC News

[Rhiannon12866]

Families of Parkland school shooting victims gave impact statements ahead of Nikolas Cruz being sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead. - Aired on 11/02/2022.

[claudette]

1. As much as I feel for the pain

that these people have suffered, I truly don't see how some of them wishing for the horrible perpetrator's death can ever make them feel any better.

I'm against the death penalty, too. Both are pure revenge and not justice. I'm sorry if I have offended anyone here by expressing my opinion.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Not at all, I feel exactly the same way

What would putting him to death accomplish? It won't bring their loved ones back.

And I have to admit that whenever I hear the term "pro-life," I think it must mean against the death penalty! Not to mention, the methods of execution used these days are usually injections which sometimes don't work. So it ends up being torture - which anyone should condemn as we have condemned waterboarding. Yes, life in prison is more complicated and costly, but what does execution say about us?

[claudette]

3. It says

That the USA is counted with the countries that still believe in barbarism instead of justice.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I was thinking about electric chairs, earlier - wasn't that what was used with the Rosenbergs?

And that really wasn't all that long ago. I once sat in an electric chair! My grandmother used to spend the winter in Arizona and she made a friend who was director of a local museum there - so we visited it and there was an electric chair which I sat in - of course...