Do You Believe in the Death Penalty?

In the past years, our country upheld the death penalty. And now, it is debated whether it'll be legalized again 'cause of the increase of crimes in the country. The purpose of the death penalty is to frighten, warn people, and killing criminals is against the law of human dignity and rights.
 
Of course. If you take someone's life, yours should be taken in return. It's only fair.
 
Horizon said:
Of course. If you take someone's life, yours should be taken in return. It's only fair.
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That's what I used to think, but technically, after thinking about it a bit, you begin to realise that being fair is simply unfair. As I outline before, the person who was killed deserved not to be killed, yet was anyway. The killer deserves to be killed, so we would be giving them something they deserved, which is unfair as the one who was killed wasn't given what was fair.
 
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To those who say "let them rot in jail" by reason of either it's inhumane to kill them, or let them suffer, consider this: Do you really want to keep more people in an already overcrowded prison system? Does your insatiable craving for revenge cloud your sound judgment? Sure, someone deserves to suffer for killing someone, but many people are killed; that means many people should suffer. We don't have enough room for all of those people to suffer.

But yes, I do support the death penalty. Lethal Injection is probably the only one I support though.
 
I support life imprisonment. Murdering a person, even if your are backuped by some law, will only make you as bad as that person. It's better to leave that person years and years thinking on what he/she did rather than giving said person a short and mostly painless solution. Murder is never a solution, even if the other person murdered first. Plus, the justice is so damn iffy in some places that many executed people end up being innocent :\
 
elheroeoscuro said:
No one should play the role of God and take people's lives.
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Why not? If the Big G ain't gonna do it someone has to. It's undeniable that God doesn't help those who need/deserve it, he spontanously helps out random people for no good reason.

For those who say "oh, by killing these murderes etc. were just being as bad as them!" think about it this way. If someone's emprisoned for, say, locking someone up in their basement for 10 years aren't we just being as bad as them anyway, for locking them up?

As you can tell, I don't believe in any form of advertised propaganda God
 
Eh, I don't like the death sentence. I think they should just imprison them for life. Then, they can think of the horrid things they have done. The death sentence, to me, is way too quick and easy.
 
Mence Master said:
For those that believe in human life, should those who murder hundreds, even thousands be left alive?
Should Bin Laden live?
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I know a lot of people are going to lose respect for me for what I'm about to say and that I'll problem get neg-repped so hard I'll have five red blocks, but yes. Human life is (as Nick put it) sacred. It doesn't matter how much wrongdoing someone has committed in his life, we shouldn't kill as a punishment. We claim that the killing of nearly four thousand people is a bad thing, but by killing the person behind that act, are we serving justice or just becoming the monster Bin Laden is?

Let whoever it is rot in a prison cell for the rest of his life; maybe that will give him the chance to realise what he's done wrong. By ending his life, we aren't letting him realise what he's done wrong, we're just showing him what we think should happen to him.

People who have done something against the law are put in jail in the hopes that they'll learn their lesson. If you kill someone, how will that person ever learn his lesson?
 
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It depends on what the criminal has done. If he stole a loaf of bread and got hanged for that, that would be just stupid. But if that person killed another man, well hang his neck off. He deserves it. There shouldn't be any reasoning either. A murderer could come back if he doesn't get killed straight away. And who said they need an easy death?

See, when a mass murderer is put to death, it is because he can't be released into the world ever again. Even if we do throw him in a cell for his life, he could escape. Those murderers are not little kids anymore. They can't just be thrown in jail to teach them that what they have done is wrong. These men should know that murder is illegal and wrong. And they should know that they must receive the maximum punishment for what they have done.

The death sentence is really to deter anyone from committing crimes like murder, not to teach the murderer a lesson. It is also there so that this murderer may be rid from the world. The people may be safe from him after he dies.
 
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I think people should do research into how people can become stuff like serial killers and get the mindset for it. Were they always like that? Surely, they think differently from "normal" people, to be able to disconnect from their emotions to be able to kill someone? Or maybe anyone could, willingly, kill a person? So is the only thing that is keeping everyone from murdering random people a jail sentence?
There probably is some research out there, but I haven't read any. It would be an interesting read, though.

Even with murder, there is different causes that could make it "more OK" to commit, such as domestic violence.

I wonder about what the people who have to kill the person having the death sentence are like though. Are they just like murderers? Surely they must feel some guilt? Or they feel they're alright because "it's just a job"? I don't support the killing of any human being.

Cassino said:
I do, but only the most severe cases.

Public hanging by long drop is the preferred method.

And why public, you may ask? Examples must be set.
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And I wonder what the people who want to see a person die, as a form of entertainment, are like. There would surely be people who go for the enjoyment...but I wonder what sort of example it would set for people to see the last moments of a human life.

I'm in a thoughtful mood.
 
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Jorah said:
And I wonder what the people who want to see a person die, as a form of entertainment, are like. There would surely be people who go for the enjoyment...but I wonder what sort of example it would set for people to see the last moments of a human life.
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That reminds me of the Salem Witch trials. What a horrible thing to bring up, but it plays an excellent part in discussing this topic. In my opinion, though I know long before then this happened, the Salem Witch trials basically redefined the meaning of the death penalty. Confess for something you didn't do and be hated by the town; don't confess, and it be your life they take. Slightly confusing as they were all noble Christians at that time and even though they believed that people were in association with the devil, they had no way to prove it other than "spirits attacked me" and all of that nonsense. But if people could stand and watch, knowing full well that these people being hung before them could only be a target of vanity and greed from another member of the village, and much less enjoy a hanging back then,... I fear for the worse seeing as how today's society is just as horrible, perhaps more.

I believe death should be a peaceful occurrence as it should be a reflection time of your life and success on earth as you prepare to move on to bigger and better things. It shouldn't be being electrocuted, hung, etc. I mean, honestly, that has got to be the worst feeling ever knowing that today is the last day you're going to be alive and there's nothing that you can do about it other than wait it out. I mean, even criminals should not be punished like that... regardless of what they've done.

The legal system of all countries needs to seriously be considered of being revamped so criminals such as those really would regret what they did in a way not involving getting their life taken away.
 
I do, but it depends on the crime. For example, the man who killed two babies and a woman, and wounded 13 others in a day care in Belgium. I do think he deserves the death penalty.

For taking one persons life I don't think you have to be killed. Just lock them up and let them rot. But this man killed two babies and a woman. You really have to be sick minded to kill a baby. I think hé deserves to die. But, they don't have the death penalty there so it won't happen.
 
I myself am not against the death sentence. It speaks of death penalties in the old testament of the bible. So to be honest it really ISNT wrong, to kill someone for committing murder, or rape, or something extremely violent. In fact, I think the way we kill people facing the death penalty now, is a lot more lenient than the way the bible (Old Testament) would have them killed.

My point is simple. There has to be Law for everyone to co-exist. Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against using the death penalty for minor offenses. As far as I'm concerned, the death penalty should only be invoked if someone intentionally committed murder, or something similarly violent with nothing but purely evil or malicious intent. Let God sort out the heavily confused from the truly wicked.

I know you might say the previous line was unfair to those who are 'Heavily Confused' but seriously, if they're that confused, who is to say they wont become wicked? The devil has many ways of tricking people, and if they are really a danger to everyone, why should we pamper them by putting them in jail?
 
I'm personally against the death sentence, although I think life imprisonment is a much better punishment. With death, you don't really have to suffer for your actions. You just die, quickly. While with life imprisonment, you have to suffer for the rest of your life behind bars.

The only thing that I support about the death penalty is that it costs so much less to kill a prisoner rather than support them in jail for the rest of their life.
 

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I can't say I share the same opinion as the gentlemen in this video. xD

No but seriously, I think life imprisonment is a much better punishment.
If they're dead then how can they be punished? (Assuming there isn't a hell)
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I say kill them, nobody has to worry about them anymore, they're dead. Failing that, imprison them into a tiny cubicle where they can hardly move, with a slit in the wall for air to breathe and food paste comes in through the same tube they have to use to dispose of their waste; just put thousands of these cubicles into rows and columns in one giant building. Sorted. It's cheap, efficient and they can't do anything bad anymore. I don't want money being wasted on nice food, healthcare and accommodation for prisoners. Cheap materials should be used for this building aswell.
 
Well, I find Vendak's idea a little extreme, but I do essentially agree with him. The problem is that a 'life sentence' can often mean 'fourteen years'. If you get this sentence when you're twenty five, you're not even fourty when you get out. Plenty of your life left for repeating your crimes. I do believe in a death penalty, but only where a completely secure life-long sentence is not readily available.

For example, two British find Bin Laden. They're a week's travel away from their comrades, having gotten separated and there is a high chance that BL will escape during the journey. I believe in this situation, execution would be the right thing to do, as it would be the only way to ensure that this awful terrorist could be stopped.

Contrast with this situation, where Bin Laden in captured by an entire platoon, less than a day's travel from their secure base. Execution here is unnecessary, whereas in the previous example, it was, in effect, a safeguard.

Finally, pain should neither be minimized nor deliberately caused during execution. The point of the death penalty is to stop that particular person, not to toture them. At the same time, resources should not be wasted in giving a criminal a more pleasant and easy death than most people will experience.
 
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