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I have a solution for the national debt. Raffle off chances to be the one to kill a serial killer or child molester. I'd kick in $100 or so a week to buy tickets. Then you could make the spectacle a pay per view television event with DVD sales to follow. You could sell hats and t-shirts too. We'd have the economy and justice system fixed in a few years. :thumbsup |
I support it, but there is no doubt that innocent people have been executed.
We need to have seperate standards of guilt that are tougher than "beyond a reasonable doubt" for there to be an execution. There needs to be 100% undeniable proof. When there is that kind of evidence, I do not believe there should even be an appeals process. Just take the killer into a room next door after the ruling and get it over with right then. We also need to expand what crimes are eligible for death. For instance if a drunk driver with a dozen DUI arrests finally kills someone, they should be executed. |
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I'm for it.
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No, I am against it and here is why. I want them to suffer, and giving them death is too quick in my book. No, I want them to suffer. Bring back the chain gang. I want them breaking rocks, cutting trees, picking up garbage on the side of the road...all fricken day long, every single day, for the rest of their lives. No fucking TV, no lifting weights, NOTHING for them to look forward to. And only enough food and water so they can keep working. And I want them working in an area where they can see cars of people on their way to work or home, so they are reminded every day of what they are missing. Plus, it gives others a chance to see what they will be doing for the rest of their lives if they commit a crime like that. I want them to suffer...
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i voted against, but i need to qualify that by saying:
if the system didn't convict so many innocent people, i'd be all for it. burn the weeds to make room for the trees, i say. |
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I support it only for those certain cases of serial rape/murder where there is zero doubt the person did it. Zero, as in none. The Dahmers and Pictons and Bernardos of the world really don't deserve to breath air and eat food like the rest of us.
For me it's not about it being a deterrent either, but more about ridding society of the worst scum imagineable and making sure that that scum has zero chance of doing what they did ever again. It's easy to oppose the death penalty until it's your own kid or your own wife, parent, brother, sister etc that was horribly murdered, raped and killed, mutilated etc by some sick whacko. Personally I feel sorry for the families of such victims, who have to live the rest of their lives knowing their loved one's killer is alive and has the possibility of finding even the least little enjoyment of life while in prison. No north American prison is harsh enough for these specific criminals. In Canada, for someone like Paul Bernardo and his nutjob girlfriend I'd have gladly pushed the plunger on the syringe personally. We are way too soft on scum here. |
Just think of those words your dear relatives said to you in comfort at your loved ones funerals, and remember that someone will be saying those same words about the person killed by death penalty.
He's in a better place where there is no more pain, no more suffering. He's finally free. What about "closure"? Yeah point us to all those wonderful tales of how closure made someones life complete again. I'm sure those links will come pouring in. |
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Yes, all prisoners sell drugs, form gangs and kill people behind bars.
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If it doesn't work, doesn't change anything and the process isn't going to be changing anytime soon then why continue to do it and waste the money? |
I would be all for it if it were carried out consistently: same standards for everyone.
That means that if someone who got executed was later found to be innocent, all those responsible would get prosecuted for kidnapping and premeditated murder. Politicians, judge, jury, police, voters, etc. And, of course, "we thought he was guilty" isn't an acceptable defense - just like "I accidentally killed the wrong guy" isn't a defense in any other murder case. I think they should have a referendum on it. People get to vote on whether they want the death penalty to be used or not, and if they vote in favor, then they will be held responsible the moment it is found out that an innocent person got executed. |
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He actually only worried about winning a hand of poker where someone bet a couple of packs of smokes, so he would have his cigarettes for the week. |
I would be all for it IF it would be carried out swiftly. Which will never happen.
Yes, there is and will always be a small % of people wrongly convicted who have to die; then it comes down to the question is losing one life worth saving others? I do think swift executions would be a deterrent and violent crime levels would drop; however there are many people not afraid to die, to whom this would probably be what they are seeking. With that in mind, I propose that instead of being put to death, they are put into extreme torture situations. If you ask someone "not afraid to die" what they are afraid of, I'd wager many say torture or dying in a painful, drawn-out way. Extreme torture would likely be a great deterrent and in the unfortunate cases where they have the wrong person, while they will be put through quite an ordeal, they still have a small chance at recovery unlike death. |
i prefer a well run gulag to a death penalty that can kill innocents. there are too many stupid people (OJ verdict) in courtrooms to leave death up to them.
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The OJ case had absolutely nothing to do with the jury, and everything to do with a combination of a shitty case put on by the prosecution, allowing Mark Fuhrman to testify, and OJ's defense team doing a magnificent job at raising a reasonable doubt. |
but people should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of the people...
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Castration would be a bigger deterrent and reduce aggression. One nut for 1st offence. Nobody will risk that.
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I would probably be for it except that it doesn't work like it should do in practice and it costs more to kill someone then to let them rot behind bars. Probably much harder to live life behind bars then to get executed anyway.
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By the way, saying I am ignorant because I want them to suffer in jail is just as ignorant as saying "all they do in prison is sell drugs, form gangs, and kill people." |
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=937074
let em swing, rope is cheaper than electricty anyway |
The death penalty is the easy way out for the guilty.
It degrades the society that commits legal murder...We all end up with blood on our hands. Look at societies that have low crime rates see why.... Prevention is the only way forward. Countries that have the death penalty are barbaric. China, Saudia A, Russia, USA etc Society should be above the level of the murderer and the understandable rage of the victim. It is also a problem that the death penalty will always only be for the poor, those who can't afford the lawyer to get them off. Let it be that only murderers murder, and we just stop them from doing it again. |
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death is the easy way out
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If you did the crime you should die. But I've seen too many people released after years in jail for crimes they didn't commit. If in the UK we had a death penalty still, many of those innocent people would be dead. That's just not good enough. I would rather the guilty spend life in prision but live than see one single innocent person die. So for that alone I'm very much against it.
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Unfortunitley I just can't choose. I am neither for, nor against.
On a debate like this, there are simply too many variabes. Just one at the top of my head Why should one murderer die and another murderer live? Who determines these questions? Maybe it depends on what the victims family would like, but that would just bring in a whole range of issues. So meh. |
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