Justin Bieber Should be Given the Death Penalty

As PRO has pointed out, I love topics about Justin Bieber. I used to be a fan, before he got all tattooed and became a giant douche. But, now he's a giant douche who drinks and drives and generally acts like a thug. But, that doesn't mean that JB deserves to be executed. Before getting to my arguments, I want to observe that the death penalty is a punishment -and one of the most severe kind. We don't even execute all murderers, unless you count Texas. The Basic Argument: The Biebz has done all kinds of horrible stuff, but he doesn't deserve to be executed. JB has inflicted his horrible music on us, and apparently has no intention of stopping. This is awful, and I don't contest that a thorough round of public shaming and humiliation is in order -especially for what he said about Bill Clinton. Perhaps he should be caned in Times Square, or tarred and feathered... but execution is way too harsh. Execution is capital punishment, and we only subject those criminals to it which have committed capital crimes. (1) Being a giant arrogant douche, getting a DUI and having ugly-@ss tattoos are not capital crimes. Biebz has not committed capital crimes of any kind, so we can't execute him. Rebutting PRO's case: PRO's first argument is that JB "does what he wants and a'int stopping." It is not in dispute that JB assaulted a limo driver, failed to attend anger management classes, egged a woman's house, has abused drugs and has driven under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Since we're on the subject of medieval punishments, maybe he needs to be publicly caned on his little Bieber buns to whack some sense into him, or better yet perhaps he should be locked in the stockade for people to throw eggs at him... but execution is too harsh. I reiterate, JB has done nothing to warrant capital punishment. PRO's second argument is that everybody hates the Biebz, so he should just be killed. If this were Iran, then perhaps I could understand that line of reasoning. Iran has a noted history of killing off people it doesn't like, even young guys whose lives have not even yet really begun. (1) But, we're better than them. Killing JB makes the United States like Iran, and that's simply unacceptable. We only kill people who kill other people, unless you count Texas, which is really just interested in killing people that their noted "finders of fact" find to probably have killed people -especially if the person Texas is thinking about killing is black or latino. PRO's third argument is that JB can't only get a life sentence because he might get out, and for some other reasons that aren't really relevant. It's clear that PRO doesn't like JB, but PRO wants to make the US legal system like Iran's to retaliate -and that's just not cool. We don't lock people up for life for the things JB has done, because that would make us like Iran -or Russia, which also has a noted history of imprisoning people it doesn't like. But, that's irrelevant because we're not talking about life in prison. We're talking about the state killing the Biebz, which is totally unjustified. PRO's fourth argument is irrelevant because the death penalty's being just or not has no bearing on whether JB should be subject to it. The only question you have to ask yourself as a judge is this: "Has Justin Beiber committed a capital crime?" If the answer is no, vote for YYW, yo. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org...