For serious offenders (and I mean serious) I'm all for it. Jail just doesn't do justice. half those that are given 'Life' sentences are released early because they are 'well behaved'. - Then they go commit a crime again. If that crime is Murder, someones life could be saved.
And you say about no 'painless' one being around. Well surely a bullet between the eyes is painless enough? Not to mention, if someone is going up for the death penalty, it would be because they committed that big a crime, why should we make it pleasant for them?
I think that the death penalty is not only inhumane but also hypocrisy. Ok, so if you kill, you deserver to die? Ok, so the executioner deserves to die? And his executioner? Its absurd. The logic there follows the same as yours. Soon youd either become less brutalised or wipe out all of texas (or wherever).
Also, I think that if someone has taken from society (being it by killing someone or just using a state paid school) they should give it back when they can (pay taxes), so the killer should have to participate in community-beneffiting actions. Death and imprisonment do not repair any of the damge done. What the killer has to do to make up for it would be decided case by case.
I'll add one of these "signature" thingies at some point....
^^ If you were a Murderer, and you killed... say 5 people, how exactly would you 'give that back' to the community? Dig up the corpses, and bring them back to life? I don't think so some how.
^^ If you were a Murderer, and you killed... say 5 people, how exactly would you 'give that back' to the community? Dig up the corpses, and bring them back to life? I don't think so some how.
Getting them to pick up a single bit of litter on the street is giving more back than killing them in return/revenge/justice/whetever.
I'll add one of these "signature" thingies at some point....
^^ yes but, for example, one of those 5 people is one of your loved ones be it your partner, family member, or even you son/daughter would you be satisfied with that person just picking up litter, i know i wouldn't
My opinion of it has changed. I used to be totally against it, but now for incredibly serious crimes I'm not so sure. Certainly I don't think it should be applied to all murder charges - serial killing, possibly. There also ought to be a minimum prison sentance to serve before execution, say... 5 years. The disadvantage of the death penalty is that it's a bit too late to say sorry if you get the wrong man, so prison first should leave enough time to make 110% sure you have the right person.
I think it should be a universal life in prison (No parole) for any murder conviction. When you have people who go out and shoot someone (Gangsters come to mind) they should not be let out after 25 years.
I hate in whenever someone gets out on parole and then goes and does the same crime again. But still, executing someone just continues the cycle of violence.
Violence Ends with Violence. Still, I don't understand people like you's Logic. "They Feel Pain," exactly! They have (Most Likely) done HORRIBLE things to the People of the World, why shouldn't they feel a tinge of Irritation before death? Please, do not use the "We're no better than them" excuse. That Argument completely and utterly fails. First of all, if we were no better than them, we'd go out and murder and rape multitudes of innocent people, secondly, we're putting THEM, a horrible person to DEATH, doesn't that seem right? We're bringing back the wrath of family members the form of Death, to me, it just seems right killing a Horrible Person.
Besides, if someone butchered your family, what would you want to do to them? So before speaking against this, think of what their families have to feel, then mae your decision.
Finally, Life in Prison would be a huge waste of Taxpayer Money. If you Hard Labour from prisoners, get it from the Minimum Security Guys who are only in for a Year or something.
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The death penalty should be upheld and personally I think we should drop the lethal injection and revert back to hanging, the electric chair, or even maybe some ol' axe and chopping block or firing squad.
Keeping every damn criminal in prison not only causes more prisons to become overpopulated but it only adds to the overpopulation in general. Overpopulation is not a good thing for our quickly growing society and why have people that killed innoccent men and women bring society down...plus i dont want me damn taxes going to support their lives in jail.
If you killed someone (outside of self defence) then you die...it's that simple. You shoot a man in the head while trying to take his wallet from him then...damn..just have the closest relative of that man come in with a .45 colt and put one himself in the bastards brain.
I have no love or sympathy for those who ruthlessly murder, rape, destroy, and bring down humanity...they are scum and they deserve death
HA! Well Said, my exact thoughts.
Steve Irwin, February 22, 1962-September 4, 2006, RIP.
Last edited by Captain Fist; January 8th, 2007 at 09:41 AM.
I think the death penulty should be banned. It is inhumane and does not get the job done. They have not come up with any method of execution that is painless, and it is likely impossible to do so.
Its not suppose to be humane, you seem to be missing the point...
Painless execution defeats the entire purpose of it
On one side who are we to take someone' s life even if this someone took the life of another 500?
On the other side I think death penalty would reduce crime and prison costs.
Personally I am against death penalty for the first reason but I understand why states/nations do it. I would want it in any country though...
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