Do you believe in the death penalty? Page 3

Started by Brittani April 7th, 2010 3:02 PM
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Do you agree or disagree with the death penalty?

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Okay, sure we get false-positives, but for the majority, these people are convicted on correct terms. WHY should these sick bastards be given the easy ways out? Therapy, the death sentence, isolation, they're all terrible ideas because these people, no, these scum will go without having to pay for their crimes in an equal way to what they did in the first place.

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Absolutely.

I believe the Death Penalty is justice ONLY if you have taken another life... Or there is just too much damn room in the cells. I don't believe they should keep making prisons to hold all of those people...

In all opinion, I feel like the systems are being way too nice to criminals. They use the death penalty as little as possible. If people kill someone, then they should die in the exact same way that they have killed... Unless they were, like, in the army or attacked and had valid reason to kill. But I believe that if a guy rapes and kills a woman, he should be raped by a really big gay man and then killed the same exact way. That's exactly how I see it.

I love the death penalty. It teaches people that they aren't so high and mighty in the world after all and gets rid of the worthless cowards who have nothing better to do than make other people's lives miserable.

I know I sound mean, but that's the way I see it.
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Eh, I just spent ten minutes writing a massive post on why I dont support the death penalty, got logged out and lost the entire post. Yay me!

Anyways, my main points were that its cheaper to keep someone in jail for life without parole than it is to put them to death; the legal paperwork is huge and court costs because of multiple appeals isnt cheap either. Innocent people have been put to death for crimes that they didnt commit before, and that alone is a reason for why it shouldnt be allowed I think. I did some research a couple of years back, and found that (in the USA) states that have the death penalty have a higher crime rate than those that dont.

Im also a believer in that everyone should have the chance of rehabilitation. I know that it doesnt work for everyone (I went on a trip to a prison for a law subject once), but it should at least be attempted. Everyone deserves a second chance.

I live in a country where we dont have the death penalty, and I think our system works fine as it is. Being in prison is a horrible enough deterrent for most, and for those that arent deterred by it probably wont be deterred by the death penalty either.

My other post was much more convincing, but oh well. I believe that its barbaric to have the death penalty, but thats just my opinion.

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I don't believe any human should have the right to take the life of another. The power to take away someone else's life is not a power we should have. Sure, lock the bastards away so they never see daylight again, but killing them is not something we should be able to do. Even the most despicable human being has the right to live.
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I don't believe it should be used as a predetermined penalty for a certain crime, each case is different so I don't think there should be any sort of set routine that is used to deal with particular offences. Although, I do support it as a viable option, it just totally depends on the circumstances of each individual criminal case as to whether it should be used or not.
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I support the death penalty, but I think it should only be used on people convicted of first- or second-degree murder or with more than one rape conviction.

Yes, everyone has the right to live, but when you take someone else's life, you forfeit your own right to live your life. Did the person they murder get a say in whether or not they got to live? No. So the murderer shouldn't be allowed to either. And rape can seriously destroy people's lives; rape victims generally need copious amounts of therapy or drugs like antidepressants to be able to resume living a normal life. One rape should be punished by jail time, rehabilitation, and very careful monitoring after the rapist's release from prison. If the person commits more than one rape, then they have shown that they obviously are unable to be rehabilitated and reintegrated into society, and because they have ruined more than one person's life, they should not be allowed to keep theirs.

And the death penalty is not cruel or unusual punishment. Nearly every method of execution is quick and painless, which is often much more merciful than the methods employed by the murderer or rapist on their victims.

I actually agree to this one. :)
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I'm against the Death penalty. I feel as though both sides have some very interesting and swaying arguments, but ultimately I have to disagree with it. Yeah, there's horrible people out there that commit heinous crimes but we also have to think about the falsely accused people that are in there. If anybody is interested, try googling "the innocence project" just to see how many people are wrongly convicted. Not only that, but we also have to consider the responsibility of murdering another human being. Nobody should have that responsibility or power in my humble opinion.

We can't just be ignorant and say "They killed so let's kill them!" because then we'd be following the "eye for an eye" approach (and well the whole world goes blind from it like somebody else had stated.) So I voted no.
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I'll just stick to the "The whole point is not getting revenge, but keeping that guy away so he doesn't do it again". Murdering won't teach anybody a lesson- because once you are dead, you can't learn anything, duh. But spending a dozen years in prison will sure teach you things.

Some of you say that killing is bad so you are fine with killing these people. Nonsense. If killing is bad, it should be bad always (unless it's a life-or-death scenario, you know). As many people said, two rights don't make a wrong.

So let's see: killing people is immoral. Killing people is more expensive. Killing can't be undone. And spending years and years waiting for the final day, knowing that today might be your final day in the Earth, it's a cruel torture, even bigger than spending years and years in a prison.

And, finally, killing a convicts means that you believe in the worst of the people, that there isn't any chance for them to pay for their crimes, think about what they have done and rehabilitate. I myself think otherwise- I believe there is such chance. So I'd rather have them spend years and years and years in prison thinking about what they did and paying for it, before giving them a second chance. And if they do it again? Life imprisonment, for what's left of their lives.

But really, if you have spent 30 years in prison, you'll get out with 50/60 years unless you were really young when you got caught. And, when you are that old, chances of going back to your old misdeeds aren't really that huge, unless you are a psychopath. And they aren't that common, either.

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I believe in it to an extent but like most things it has it's downsides.

I believe it's fair if you take a life you should lose your own. Some might argue that they wouldn't learn their lesson, as good a point as that is I just think it should work that way.
Then again it people should only be executed after a long trial and ensuring that all the evidence is checked thoroughly to prevent an innocent person being convicted wrongly and being put to death for crimes they didn't commit.
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I really don't know whether I support or not. I mean there are logical arguments from BOTH sides. Coin toss anyone? JKJK.

But really, I support considering, if a relative gets killed, I think I would swear vengeance and then campaign vigourously in order to get him executed. But, then, I could have just ruined a chance at getting the killer back to normal. Thats the problem it's a CHANCE, life just has too many variables to make a good decision and I think I would just take the chance that he is never going to be normal and kill him. I would rather kill someone who only did the crime once than take the risk that he will break out of prison and kill more.

Just my two cents and feel free to contradict, and yes, I am being a little hypocritical
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Since I like the eye for an eye saying, and I don't ever think there will be a completely successful way of execution, I'm against it.
There is also the chance that the person being executed can very well be innocent, and you can't revive someone. It's also more expensive to have court cases involve the death penalty than to just throw them in prison for life.

Yes. They need to be taught a lesson, or obviously they won't learn not to kill people.
I thought that's what prison was for :/

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When the saying, "an eye for an eye" was made, I don't think it was supposed to include death. I do support the Death Penalty, by all means, but not because there's no room in jail. That's just stupid. Because there's no room in jail, you're just going to stick someone on a chair and fry them to death when they didn't commit that serious of a crime? If you murder someone, you're left with that hanging over your head. Really, I think they're going to kill themselves emotionally without anyone needing to do something. Unless they're psycopaths, but like Went said, you don't come across a lot of them IRL. If it was an intentional murder, then by all means I believe they should suffer for that. However, people murder others accidentally. Do you think they should be put on the chair or hanged? It's still murder, but it wasn't intentional. Someone answer me that.

Also, I don't like this whole "it costs more to..." Why? Because that's like putting money on someone elses life.
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Only in certain cases.

There are some criminals that just cannot be rehabilitated, and those are the ones who require the death penalty. Those who can change probably will after spending a good portion of their life locked away.
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