The Death Penalty - Do you agree with it?

Accidents are a different story, I was referring to those murders that are done with intent. Far as the "throw them in a cell" goes, prison as a form of punishment has gone out the window a long time ago.
 
who's to say it was a accident. if you you do something that you know can result in some one's death and you do it anyway than what makes you any different. a person can just claim stupidity? And an eye for an eye means an eye for a eye. not just sometimes. I bet there are a lot of people in America that have been sent to death for crimes they did not commit.
 
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Kannon said:
I'm a firm believer in "an eye for an eye" although that'll never be implimented (America is going soft). So I'd be happy seeing murderers and rapists being put to death, and even that is like pulling teeth in this country.
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An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth leaves the world blind and toothless.
 
We can play the retarded what if game all day. If you intended for someone to die, you die. Cases in which people die from accidents can be taken care of on a case by case basis, if someone lost control in bad weather and accidently hit someone and they died, that wouldn't result in the death penalty. If someone was driving drunk and was a repeated offender, and killed someone, the death penalty wouldn't be out of the question in my mind. If prisons were actually hard on the inmates like they used to be, life sentences for lesser crimes would be fine in my eyes, but when you have the highest percentage of your population behind bars (in relation to the percentage of other countries populations behind bars), where the inmates get paid to get 3 square meals a day, cable tv, video games, libraries, weight rooms, basketball courts, etc, etc, etc, prison ceases to be punishment.
 
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It depends on what they did and why they did it.

Someone who murders several people with absolutely no reason or because they have serious issues, yeah I would be all for it.

Someone who murders their father after years of physical and sexual abuse to them and their siblings, well that person does not deserve it.

Someone who violently rapes someone else, yes I am all for the death penalty, especially since many people do not ever recover from it.
 
Yay, someone who get's where I'm coming from without the "what if" game. Thank you, Rydia.
 
The death penalty is a punishment given to individuals that cannot reformed back into the public. I hope I said that right. It's also given to individuals that commit terrible crimes and are considered harmful to anyone around them. So the death penalty can be a good thing. But what if the culprit(sp?) was innocent and was already killed what then?
 
no... the death penalty is something exclusively for people who made extreme crimes, like terrorists/dictators/ mass murderers... people who have done very horrible things, for killing 1 single person i prefer the lifelong imprisonment, those people still have to get a chance to redeem for their crimes and die a natural death instead of being murdered themselves...
because the death penalty is just the same as a murder, nothing more, nothing less...
 
IMO, "killing one person" varies considerably. Too much in fact to blanket it with a life imprisonment. Imagine someone who decapitates (cuts the head off) someone, followed by disemboweling (removing the intestines) them and eating them? You think they deserve life imprisonment? Sorry, I don't.
 
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IMO, "killing one person" varies considerably. Too much in fact to blanket it with a life imprisonment. Imagine someone who decapitates (cuts the head off) someone, followed by disemboweling (removing the intestines) them and eating them? You think they deserve life imprisonment? Sorry, I don't.
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apperantly you should read my post again

i'll give you a hand...

no... the death penalty is something exclusively for people who made extreme crimes, like terrorists/dictators/ mass murderers... people who have done very horrible things
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the names i gave are mere examples... things i could think of at that moment, the crime you give here is an "extreme crime"
 
i think that this a complicated matter (obvious statement i know) but it really should be decided through looking at each case seperately. i mean if a guy (or girl) has been tried and found beyond doubt that they are guilty, jailed for life and THEN commit more crimes as devious as the orginal with no hope of ever showing any remorse then yes maybe the death pently would be appropriate. but this is an extreme example.
 
My bad Raptorg, sometimes I focus in on one part of a post and oversee other points. Still, I'm against life imprisonment for several reasons (depending on the case). It's eating away at U.S. dollars for them to live (depending on location) in the lap of luxury. If prison was what it used to be, cement walls, bars, and your roomie, I'd be for it. With libraries, gyms, tv lounges, video games, etc, sorry, that's not punishment, that's a vacation for these guys. I like what a sheriff down south (can't remember the exact location) is doing with his prisoners, putting them up in tents out in the heat, and having them work daily (ditch diggin type stuff). His philosophy is if the troops over seas can be put in this environment for the better of the US, so can the prisoners, and no one to this day has challenged him on it. Good man.
 
Kannon said:
My bad Raptorg, sometimes I focus in on one part of a post and oversee other points. Still, I'm against life imprisonment for several reasons (depending on the case). It's eating away at U.S. dollars for them to live (depending on location) in the lap of luxury. If prison was what it used to be, cement walls, bars, and your roomie, I'd be for it. With libraries, gyms, tv lounges, video games, etc, sorry, that's not punishment, that's a vacation for these guys. I like what a sheriff down south (can't remember the exact location) is doing with his prisoners, putting them up in tents out in the heat, and having them work daily (ditch diggin type stuff). His philosophy is if the troops over seas can be put in this environment for the better of the US, so can the prisoners, and no one to this day has challenged him on it. Good man.
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you're right about the luxury, those guys have more luxury then i have at home... but well, they still deserve to live... the biggest problem are the prisons...
 
There's never enough evidence against a person to take their life away. People recieve the death penalty for ridiculous reasons, even accidental murder can land you in that spot. Accidental murder...

The reason why so many people are subjected to the death penalty is because of the cost of imprisonment. Prisoners cost money, and the government doesn't want to pay for something if they don't have to.
 
I think if you kill someone for no reason then you deserve to die too
I think if you kill someone for a reason then you deserve to serve life in prison
I think if you kill someone who was trying to kill you or someone you know you should get a medal.

Sounds strange but ... an eye for an eye isnt always needed
 
I do not agree with death penalty at all.

What is the death penalty teaching us? An eye for an eye?

And we wonder why the world is so violent. Now a days we're taught that it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. If someone hits you fight back.

What about forgiveness and turning the other cheek? Letting go of anger and grudges...

Yes it's such an awful crime when someone takes the life of another, but what does it say about soceity when we do the same thing.

Death penalty: Is not justice, it's an atrocity.
 
Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
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The atrocity is the indifference of good men and women. There will always be evil and death in the world, to think those commiting these crimes against humanity deserve to live (depending on the case, of course) is what I fear most. I fear PC America taking away our personalities one law at a time, while allowing criminals to live in the lap of luxury, off our dime, which we work hard for, abiding by laws, day in and day out. What does it say about society when we take the life of a murderer? It says don't f--king murder. What does it say when we put a murderer away for life in prision? Hey, murder isn't so bad, here, go ahead and enjoy yourself in our prisons that are more furbished than our elementary schools, living off others, instead of making a life for yourself.

I believe in giving everyone the benefit or the doubt, or a second chance, always have, but murder isn't something you need to be taught that it is wrong. This is human nature. Please people, I know a lot of people are adamant about this topic, but open your eyes.
 
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