for those who condone capital punishment,would Crucifixion  be acceptable ?
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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.
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I don't really like the death penalty but when a grown man rapes and or murders a child,they do not deserve to live.And I know we aren't to judge others and that to God all sin is bad,But that's just it,we aren't God and so therefore we can judge and execute those ba******!!!!!
147898
Abolish it entirely.  Our justice system is not infalible.  There have been multiple people sentanced to death and exhonorated post-mortem.  That's enough reason for me.  Besides which the death penalty is motivated by revenge, not justice.  An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
822033
well Jesus was nailed and hanged from a cross so I don't know how the cross would be good if it was used to kill someone, semantics my friend that's all!!!
910170
No. Capital punishment is revenge not justice.\n\nIf a con doing an armed robbery is shot dead at the scene by coips then that is justice. Murdering them months or years later is not!
24097
I don't believe it reduces violent crimes because to me capital punishment is a crime in itself. I believe it is unconstitutional and unjust. Is it leagal to kill someone, and get away with it? Its ironic in its self.
1102689
I totally disagree with the death penalty, ( probably because of my christian background) I do believe that if somebody does something terrible that deserves a big punishment, then put him/her in jail for the rest of their life, let them miss all the great thing that life offers out of the jail's walls,  so they can think of what they have done until they died.\nthe main reason   why I am  against the death penalty is that once you are dead, you are  gone and that doesn't sound to much of a punishment,  is more like a slap on the wrist, it might be hard on the family of the convicted person, but not that much for the convicted himself,  plus it would be a very sad thing seen innocent people died for something they haven't done.
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i would want to, b/c of the fact that it is a noble gesture as Jesus had sacraficed his life for us...but if i were to be honest i prob. wouldn't do that. in my heart i would want to say yes i would, but we all have a will to live. if you are a truly loving and noble person you would most likely sacrafice yourself, but unfortunately not many are that willing to risk their life (unless of course the person they're trying to save is part of their family).
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Once a person is judged guilty and proven to be guilty of first degree murder, the punishment is clear. \n\nFor some it is a conundrum if they are Christian, an eye for an eye or thou shall not kill. For me it is simple, after the ENTIRE judicial process is seen through, and death is the penalty, then it should be followed though. There are few mitigating circumstances which would KEEP an innocent person behind bars. Not to say it doesn't happen and it would be wise to err on the side of caution, but, if you add in one very relevant fact, the confession, then the path is clearer. I say clearer because the confession has fault factors as well. In our country, the process of convicting a person or releasing them as innocent is the best judicial service in the world. \n\nWe are human and make mistakes and Goddess forbid it happen, ever, but to allow someone that is clearly eligible for the death penalty to live is a crime against the one murdered and the families they left behind.\n\nI will add a personal note here; I believe child rape should be a death penalty possibility. Especially if kidnapping is involved. I know this sounds harsh but the repeat offender rate for these crimes is so high and the devastation to the child so deep, the offender should NEVER be able to walk the street again.
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NOTHING is absolutely painless.  Not even sex.  The Constitution speaks out against "Cruel and unusual punishment."  In France, they still use the guillotine.  Since it is used as a standard, it is not crueler to one than to another and not unusual.  The bleeding hearts feel that WE have to be kinder and gentler, but not the killers.  The problem IS, there are still TOO MANY Innocent individuals being railroaded into a conviction.  If we could get the cops to do an honest job, then I would be in favor of turning a convicted killer over to the surviving family to deal with as they feel fit.
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Yes.\n\nBy the explicit text of the Aqdas, sometimes referred to as the Book of Laws, the death penalty is permitted for murder and arson, but not required.  Because of this, we oppose the total elimination of the 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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It's not. For me, personally any type of killing is wrong. Doesn't matter what your "reasoning" is, it's wrong.
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In the real world, no.\n\nSubstitutionary justice is no justice at all...it's sick and it's a cynical way to balance ledgers.  Hell, you see some of that going on in the Middle East with groups killing one another:  Someone looses a child to a rival tribe's assassin, he goes and murders some other member of the rival tribe in revenge, the sibling of the murder victim goes out and machineguns a bus of the first mans' tribe...and it never ends.\n\nThe whole thing started with the notion of blood sacrifice to God to atone for sins...goats, sheep, and so forth.  Did anyone notice that when Cain supposedly offered God some of his hard-grown wheat and Abel offered an animal he had caught, God liked Abel's sacrifice more?  God had a fetish for blood, I guess.  And burning flesh too.  Until Jesus's got spilled, then he suddenly got squeamish about it.  \n\nHe didn't die for anyone's sins:  He was killed because he was politically inconvienent and became a martyr to his own cause.  That's all.  The rest of the nonsense got tacked on later.
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I would for me.... but that's not the point of Capital punishment.... Retribution and justice  are the point. Any determent is just a plus. And one thing is absolutely sure.... the person upon which Capital Punishment is carried out *never* commits a crime again. It is the only punishment with a zero recidivism
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For certain crimes, I believe it is beneficial.  I won't start a big rally here but if you look at countries and states that have capital punishment in place for violent crimes, their crime rates are incredibly lower than ours.  Eye for an eye......sorry.