Ethics and Fairness

Sister Helen, with her worldly and refined noble feelings, moved the conflicting parties in the story, sublimated the morality expressed in the film, and moved me as an audience. Given that most of the reviews focus on Helen and Matthew the death row, and with the voices of controversy over whether the death penalty should be abolished, I would like to try to discuss the film from the perspective of moral conflict and social justice, looking for the possible mentality of all parties .

1. Personal possible moral conflicts:
(1) Can I have sympathy for a condemned prisoner whom I know little about, or even fight for him to be exempted from the death penalty?
(2) He is a complete villain, not just a momentary major crime. From his TV interviews, it seems that he is a complete anti-social youth. Such a person deserves my solidarity for him to avoid the death penalty. , but also make the victim's family feel sad, and plunge themselves into the disaster of moral accusation?
(3) Why did he make the same mistake as me, but only I accept such punishment, just because of the money? We committed a crime together, he stabbed the innocent young woman with a knife, and the method made me shiver, and I only shot her boyfriend after the death of the young woman; now we are sentenced together, but he can I am exempt from the death penalty, but why I have to face death, just because his family is richer than mine and can hire better lawyers, can I accept this?
(4) The criminal brutally killed our only child, leaving two helpless old people. We will not let this criminal die. I am sorry for our children. While someone we respect has great sympathy for criminals, walking up and down trying to stop the death penalty, should I be sympathetic to the compassionate heart of that person we respect?
(5) I am a single-parent family parent. My son murdered, and I heard that the means were very bad. Is there a problem with my education and did not give him a good growth environment? Did I make all this indirectly? (This one is almost absent in this story.)
(6) The big question: Should one approve of killing and take one's life, or should one approve of the abolition of the death penalty?

2. Regarding the unfairness under the fairness of social rules:
(1) Two black people have been executed recently, so in order to avoid the misunderstanding of racism, we must find a white person next, regardless of whether there is still a larger proportion of black criminals.
(2) Murder should be killed, but all follow legal procedures and respect the court's judgment. If the strength of the lawyers of all parties affects the fairness of the case, it is really helpless.

3. Other doubts:
If Sister Ellen is not a woman and is not outstanding in appearance, will it affect the development of the story?

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