Poll: The Death Penalty
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It's the constant argument isn't it?
Because I don't much like murderers I would like them to be gone.
Because I don't much like murderers I would like them to be gone.
If you commit murder or steal a whole bunch of stuff welll, fuck it, most criminals deserve the death penalty
I don't see why life sentences can't just be used. BUT make them for ACTUAL life, don't let people let out for "good behaviour" after they've murdered someone.
I wrote a 3 page essay on this and i don't want to write it again, If you want to read it get in contact with my social studies teacher and you'll get my answer.
I'm all for it.
I'm all for it.
1. I don't think we as human have the right to choose who lives and who dies.
2. Its more expensive than life in prison
3. You can undo a life sentence if more evidence or testimony surfaces, can't exactly bring back the dead....
2. Its more expensive than life in prison
3. You can undo a life sentence if more evidence or testimony surfaces, can't exactly bring back the dead....
No.
There's no excuse for killing another person.
Not to mention that the legal systems in most countries have about a 20% false positive rate!
Remember: Two wrongs don't make a right.
I do wish people would realise that treating criminals badly makes the rest of us look just as bad.
Then again, I believe in justice not punishment.
There's no excuse for killing another person.
Not to mention that the legal systems in most countries have about a 20% false positive rate!
Remember: Two wrongs don't make a right.
I do wish people would realise that treating criminals badly makes the rest of us look just as bad.
Then again, I believe in justice not punishment.
Here we go again... NO!
By supporting the death penalty you are saying you find it acceptable to put innocent men to death. Any system, however perfect, is operated by human beings who will make mistakes, how do you take back execution when you find out the guy didn't do it after all?
Also, in the US it costs a great deal more to execute a prisoner than to imprison them for life. Handing down a death sentence means a massive and lengthy legal process of appeals/assessment of (paradoxical) fitness for execution and a bunch of other things that take years and costs millions. It's much cheaper just to lock them up until they die of their own accord, people are also more accepting of this as it retains the hope of proving the defendant's innocence, even if that's never going to happen.
By supporting the death penalty you are saying you find it acceptable to put innocent men to death. Any system, however perfect, is operated by human beings who will make mistakes, how do you take back execution when you find out the guy didn't do it after all?
Also, in the US it costs a great deal more to execute a prisoner than to imprison them for life. Handing down a death sentence means a massive and lengthy legal process of appeals/assessment of (paradoxical) fitness for execution and a bunch of other things that take years and costs millions. It's much cheaper just to lock them up until they die of their own accord, people are also more accepting of this as it retains the hope of proving the defendant's innocence, even if that's never going to happen.
Against it. Never retractable, always flawed. It sucks.
I say let's put those people into life imprisonment and make them work for the society they harmed, pay for their prison stay.
If a person is wrongfully imprisoned, at least they can be rehabilitated and (partially) compensated.
But killing them? No. No way.
I say let's put those people into life imprisonment and make them work for the society they harmed, pay for their prison stay.
If a person is wrongfully imprisoned, at least they can be rehabilitated and (partially) compensated.
But killing them? No. No way.
If you get the wrong person and then execute them your screwed.
Imagine your dad or someone being accused of murder and executed.
You know he didnt do it but that wont stop the sorrow.
Now just imagine that less than a month after hes executed the real guy is found and convicted.
Now thats a pretty big oops on the justice ministrys side.
At least if someone is life imprisoned, you know that if you get the wrong guy he can be let out with the turn of a key.
Pretty hard to do that if someones dead.
Imagine your dad or someone being accused of murder and executed.
You know he didnt do it but that wont stop the sorrow.
Now just imagine that less than a month after hes executed the real guy is found and convicted.
Now thats a pretty big oops on the justice ministrys side.
At least if someone is life imprisoned, you know that if you get the wrong guy he can be let out with the turn of a key.
Pretty hard to do that if someones dead.
An eye for an eye and the whole world ends up blind. The justice system is ment to protect society and rehabilitate those who've done wrong, all this does is commit petty revenge, who's gonna be protected? and hows that gonna fix the person? Also there is miscarrige of justice so the whole argument of "SHOOT THEM RIGHT AWAY WITH EXPLODING BULLETS, THEY'RE WROOOONG! JUST LIKE ALL THEM RAPIST AND SHOPLIFTERS!" is flawed, Until we discover necromancy or something that would hurt a handful of innocent people.
I'm against it.
I don't think any one in the world, especially the state or government, has any right to say someone should live or die.
Now, if someone decides they want to kill my parents, then yeah, I'm gonna go out and destroy everything they love and I would definetely want blood, but I still have no right to do that. (Not that thats gonna stop me, but whatever)
I think murderers who would normally be sentanced to death should just get life in prison or solitary confinment. That would be worse than death.
I don't think any one in the world, especially the state or government, has any right to say someone should live or die.
Now, if someone decides they want to kill my parents, then yeah, I'm gonna go out and destroy everything they love and I would definetely want blood, but I still have no right to do that. (Not that thats gonna stop me, but whatever)
I think murderers who would normally be sentanced to death should just get life in prison or solitary confinment. That would be worse than death.
if you think about it you could use the blood/organs of muderurs/rapists to help people in hosbitle who need them so its like killing a bad person to help a nice person, which is fair
or if your bothered about the price put them in jail and just don't feed them
or if your bothered about the price put them in jail and just don't feed them
1. Yes there is. Self-Defence or the defence of another, your property or rights is as valid an excuse to kill anyone as there ever was. Tell me that you wouldn't kill me, if I was threatening the life of someone you loved. Or rather, don't. I'd rather not believe that sort of thing, nor believe I'd been lied to.CrystalShadow said:
2. Statistics, please.
My view: For the killers of children, rapists, and murder during the commission of another crime, yes. But when some poor woman who's taken fifteen years of abuse finally snaps, then I'd say that a more lenient punishment is better. 15 years sounds reasonable. And 5-10 for manslaughter. And we need to institute the 'Castle' ruling, so to make it perfectly clear the law is there to protect law-abiding citizens, not dirtbags.