If, for example, my child was raped and killed (hope that'll never happen), I wouldn't want to pray, I'd want justice, I'd want to be an executioner.
That's just because you confuse revenge and justice.
And so does nearly everyone in this thread as it seems...
And who should decide how justice is served? Are you the entitled one, sir?
Not more or less than you. The question is then does more than half the population think about the notion of justice.
It is a fact, that postmodern western society puts more emphasis on criminals "rights", than protecting their victims and their families. Media makes killers into stars, detailing to degenerate viewers every detail of their "tormented" lives, while their victims are quickly and almost mockingly forgotten with a couple of tear inducing photos. Killers are then offered essentially free (aka tax payer paid) housing, education, health care and counseling with families of victims expected to "forgive" and help pay the bill.
False and if you think that is true you're stupid or wrongly informed.
Criminals "rights" are important essentially because you can never be sure of how guilty someone is. Even when you think you have all the proofs you want doubt always exists, and that's why countries like USA kill 5% of innocent people with death penalty.
For the rest if you believe that prison is just free housing, please go to prison and see how you like it.
Indeed, in one thing you are right. People are longing for retribution, because justice was and is systematically denied to them. Scolding them even, when they stand up for themselves and call foul play.
Simply because people want revenge which means they want the same or worse to be done to the criminal than what he did.
Do you think it's a good idea of justice?
Only positive thing I see about all of this - with debts growing to stratosphere while population is slowly aging and dying out, it is clear day by day, that this "modern" and "humanist" approach is dead end that will eventually consume itself. Whoever comes after you, will have to respect law of thermodynamics again.
Rights and responsiblities shall be in strict balance or the system fails.
That's simply because you have a very old and closed mind.
Let's imagine a situation shall we?
Mr A killed someone while robbing him.
Current justice system: Mr A will serve about 15 years of prison, go out without a job or but full of hop and statistics show that only 45% of chance that he commits a crime again and 55% chance that he stays honest. result: we have 1 dead, 0.45 criminal and 0.55 honest citizen
Your idea of a justice system: Mr A killed so he must get killed. Result: 2 dead
what's better for the society?
And studies showed that if applying even more "human rights" and "laxist justice" as you say, which means trying to understand why the personn commited the crime and then adapt the punishment in order to prevent the crime to be commited again, we reach around 20% of recidivism.
But sure, Talion law was always the best