What Are Your Views On The Death Penalty

Wrong again.

 

totally bankrupt

 

I think killing is wrong. I would make an exception for when protecting the life of yourself or someone else. So it's morally wrong. I also don't believe the government can administer it fairly, over 100 innocent people have been released from death row, and since the state carries our the will of the people, you are by extension guilty of their killings. So it's practically wrong. It also doesn't save money, so the economics argument, is not only cruel, but wrong.

 

I didn't think about the appeals process before but that is a good argument.

However, I still favor it 100% if there were no false convictions. I believe that if you take someone's life (unless out of self defense), or destroy someone's life by something like forcible rape then you forfeit your right to life.

The fact that our justice system is far from perfect does give me mixed emotions.. but point blank some people are so heinous they should die.

For example those 3guys1hammer kids from Ukraine.

 

I think the topic is over-debated considering what a small percentage of useless preventable deaths it actually represents.

 

I am confused by 'useless preventable deaths'... to me no preventable death is useless.

Lode pretty much nailed my feelings on the subject.

 

" If there was something wrong with capital punishment,
surely Jesus would have said so while he was on the Cross."

(Minister to congregation in "Serial Mom" 1994)

 

Personally if I had to chose between spending life in prison vs the death penalty, I'd chose death.

 

A sentence of death is little or no deterrent to violent crime, loss of freedom is indeed the worse penalty.

 

People die uselessly for many reasons... Many who aren't killers.

 

i don't see a hypocrisy in being pro-choice and being anti-death penalty.

 

It's idiotic and shows a clear lack of understanding to even insinuate that murder or the death penalty are anything like abortion. What a woman does with her body is her business.

 

I dont believe in playing mother nature or God...life and death is not for us to decide in my personal opinion.

 

You're also English, I'm not surprised.

 

Open your mind, hippie.

 

I didn't know death was a penalty. No one has reported on it. I don't think much of killing people in general although I have imagined the idea in particular cases.

 

I think it should be done away with for two reasons:

1) The amount money spent to keep someone on death row far exceeds that of putting them in prison for life. Appeals, hearings, trials, retrials and what have you. All of that adds up.
2) The potential that someone on death row has been wrongly convicted of a crime.

 

OR explain and expand upon your position. (perhaps my neanderthal, barbaric, inhuman English mind can comprehend it).

 

To argue that in theory it is wrong to kill anyone for any reason, even someone who has murdered or raped is stupid in my opinion. I can understand, and I even agree with, arguments like this:

But to take some idealistic and supposed compassionate stand against killing a person who has had their chance in life and fucked it up by fucking up the life of another, while seeing no problem with in comparison aborting a life that could grow up to be someone who cures AIDS or something great for humanity. And the argument that a fetus isn't a life is dissolved when it comes to late term or partial birth abortion.

I'm not an advocate of bans on things like abortion, if someone needs to do that it's not my business. But the hypocrisy of most people that form all of their beliefs along "liberal" democratic party or other progressive lines of thought truly astounds me at times.