Who agrees with the death sentence? (I DON'T)?
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There are criminals who have committed seriously violent crimes who are deemed menaces to society. The object of prison is not only to punish, but to rehabilitate inmates. If an inmate is unable to be rehabilitated, there are two options: life imprisonment without parole, or the death penalty. It is very expensive to legally place someone on death row, It's not as though they are dragged out of court and immediately shot after 1 trial. Defendants are given every opportunity to cast doubt on their guilt, it has not always been this way. In some parts of the world, unfair trials are followed by immediate execution. \nThe death penalty may not be a good deterrent for violent crime but it is a fitting penalty for some and criminals are treated relatively well considering their treatment of the victims of their crimes.
436225
Personally i believe in capital punishment. I also believe that it is used to liberally in USA. Often times people go to death sentence on circumstantial evidence, or when they are retarded. \nOn the other hand SOME criminals truly deserve to DIE. If you are a BOUND TORTURE KILL serial murderer who has suffocated 10 people for sexual gratification -- you deserve to die. If you are a mastermind of genocide -- you deserve to die. If you are Oklahoma city bomber who has murdered 167 people with a bomb -- you deserve to die. No amount of jail time will atone for crimes like that.\n\nSo Back to your question. If we limit execution to Egregious cases that truly shock the conscience then i believe some form of speedy and public execution might be appropriate. Crucifixion of course is going to far as it is clearly cruel and unusual. On the other hand televising the normal mode of execution like lethal injection might be entirely appropriate.
1148421
I don't believe in capital punishment.  I think it's a much greater punishment to let a criminal rot in hellish prisons for endless years.  It's in no way a deterent for capital crimes.
406016
I am! Generally, I do not support the death penalty but, this situation makes it difficult to think this guy should get off with just life in prison.
124846
i agree ((just to have a couterfight))\nif u break somones unalienable constitutional right,\n(life, liberty, and ther pursuit of happiness) \nu should have YOUR unalienable right taken away too\n(in this case, life)\nif someone brutally murdered your brother, would you like it if he could spend his life and jail, and even if he was lucky, get out? (good behavior and such)\nThe only way to prevent those people from coming out, is giving them the death penalty.\n\ncause a life sentence isnt for life
45251
Typically most liberals do not support the death penalty. Its OK to have views that differ from whatever political affiliation you have.
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I don't want to kill anyone in cold blood. That's how I see the death penalty. If the government is doing the killing, and we the people are the government, then it is us ALL OF US doing the killing.\n\nAlso, there have been cases of innocent people being put on death row. Aint no coming back from dead.\n\nthe reason I start with the "in cold blood" comment is because I agree with many that say that they would fight to death to protect their own family. I would too. If I could catch the murderer in the act, I would kill them if that was needed to stop them. But once we have them in jail, we just need to agree to keep them in there.
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I don't believe in the death penalty.\nToo many Innocent people have been executed for something they did not do.There are two infamous cases here in Australia where the murderers/rapist were caught red handed within days and admitted they did it,both these individuals have tried to commit suicide while in prison,their crimes against another human being were horrendous and had a great impact on our country not just the state in which it took place,in a case like this I think the judge should be able to in-force the death penalty.\nSome people still think the last man hanged here was innocent and it was done for political reasons.
463140
I too believe that life without parole should be the maximum sentence for any crime.  In a world where the law and conviction system is full of inaccuracies it is too much of a risk to sentence someone to death-EVEN with a confession there is always the chance that they are innocent or did not play as big a part in a murder as they claim to have done.  Its AMAZING the amount of false confessions people will make under pressure-particularly those with a learning difficulty.  Also, the people who are actively involved in the execution of prisoners are surely then also commiting murder and they will have been involved in the deaths of many more people than the inmates they are executing-does that then mean that they deserve to die for choosing a career that involves the killing of others? \nThe death penalty is in no way a deterrent (this is a statistical fact) to murder either and is purely a 'revenge' punishment.  \nIt is not up to anyone to take the life of another and after all who decides who lives and who dies for murder?  Some murder/rapists get life, and another one time murderer could get death. It is a decision that NO-ONE should be allowed to make and it is ALL about Governments having the ultimate control-Death Row Inmates can be put on SUICIDE WATCH if they are deemed 'at risk'.  By all means give them life in prison with a little less of the luxuries they currently receive, but we cannot choose and ponder over who lives and who dies.
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Justice and sentences are a complex subject.\nTo answer in a quick way, I'd just say I'm totally against death penalty, no matter the crime, no matter the death. Matter of principles, education and logic.\nSaying "they canno't be rehabilitated" is as stupid as saying "they will never do it again". It really depends on the person and on its personal case... but "Yes" some can be rehabilitated.\nOne last sad point: the USA carceral system and culture do not foster good rehabilitations. That has sad consequences: they go on with their troubles and the ones who believe that they canno't be rehabilitated think being right!!
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I personally don't agree with capital punishment for the following reasons:\n\n1. Most countries which employ it have flawed legal systems (USA included). This can be seen by the disproportionate rate of poor and/or black people on death row in America.\nYour "punishment" should be relative to your crime, not the lawyers you can afford.\n\n2. I would think the prospect of finding yourself in gaol for the rest of your natural term with no chance of release a much more lengthy and arduous "punishment" than the quick, momentary discomfort of being gassed or put to sleep.\nThis can be seen in Tasmania, where Martin Bryant is serving a life term for killing 35 people and injuring 37 others with automatic firearms in Port Arthur.\nAfter 10yrs in prison he is overweight, depressed and by all accounts suicidal (he has no means to dispose of himself).\n\n3. It just isn't a forward step towards a more peaceful world. We have enough bloodshed caused by wars and others aggresive acts without having state sanctioned killings.
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Lets start with this-- we know for a fact at least one innocent person has been executed, we know that chances are a significant number more have been and that DNA evidence has in fact exonerated many death row inmates. so point a. innocence. secondly, the hypocrasy of this procedure is revolting-- we cannot give ourselves the moral highground if we are taking lives. thirdly contrary to many pro-death penalty advocates it actually costs more to execute an inmate than jail him or her for life and finally, it is a relic of a primordial need for vengance-- yes, if my sister were raped and murdered I would want the man who did it dead, but morally I could not encourage the government to act on my desires because I feel that the dominion over life belongs to the divine creator of life not to a fatally flawed system
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pro/con of death penalty
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against . regardless of what someone has done it is not up to me to take there life.there is no circumstance where i would accept that killing one more person was right and justified .
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I am so torn on the death penalty issue... I don't have a stance yet.\n\nFrom a strictly economical side, I'm against the death penalty, because I've heard in multiple places that it costs 2-3 times more than life in prison w/o parole.\n\nFrom a moral standpoint, it's hard to say.  Killing someone removes them once and for all as a threat.  Granted, while in jail they are only a threat to other inmates and the prison guards, but still, you cannot make a blanket judgment on whether those people (in the case of the other prisoners) deserve the threat, or (in the case of the guards) willingly accept the threat by being in that job.  Also, there's always the chance of escape.  You don't have that chance with death.\n\nIn addition, there's the obvious fact that if you accept the death penalty, almost regardless of standards for conviction, you're going to eventually get an innocent person in there.  Making the standards for conviction extremely high just leads to multiple expensive appeals, which brings us back to the economic reason to be against it.  It also makes the death penalty so rare that any appeal to it being a deterrent is just silly at that point, because even if you are convicted you'd have to be one of the unlucky ones to get the chair.\n\nIn fact, I have not seen any evidence that it actually serves as a deterrent, regardless of the extensiveness of its use.\n\nI do believe that the highest value must be placed on human life, but when you have one human life that continues to threaten others, isn't it respecting that value to end their life?\n\nI don't know.  I'm an atheist struggling to have a position on this.
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I think they should be put to work. Clean the f*cking roads and sh*t. \n\nI don't believe in capital punishment. We don't have the right to take anyone's life. Always leave the possibility for remorse and forgiveness.
1144197
nope. i believe that all murderers should die. i dont wanna spend my tax dollars on their jail cell for longer than i have to. plus, what the criminals did was barbaric. shouldn't they get a barbaric punishment for what they did?