I had originally typed out a long ass post, then I accidentally closed the window before submitting it. Fuck.
To cut it short, no, I don't support it. I mean how fucking stupid do you have to be to NOT see that the only thing the eye-for-an-eye mentality achieves is satisfying the irrational, egoistic desires for revenge that any victim of something unpleasant would have. It's funny that if I kill someone in the heat of the moment I'm a senseless killer, but if I'm standing in a courtroom saying I demand to see the person who commited crime X put to death, I'm still just a poor victim. The offender doesn't necessarily understand what's wrong when you kill him. It's an easy way out. Prisons are no good, death penalty is no good, there are too many people in the world today to make a universal rule by which people are punished for crimes that would actually practically work, so right now maybe Capital Punishment is the best way to weed out the worst criminal offenders.
But I don't think it's right.