Are you for or against the death penalty

Kaill said:
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No, I am dead serious.........Would you feel the same way if this pregnant woman murdered your mother, father, wife or husband?
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Due to the errors that have occured and will occur in trials, as seen by having people being found not guilty after years of being in jail the death penalty should not be used. It doesnt allow for correcting mistakes.

Death is final, a life sentance can be corrected and the person wrongly convicted can be compensated, a dead man can not.
 
One thing for certain is no criminal that has been ever executed ever re offended again.........

You can not say the same thing for criminals that have been sentenced to life without parole..........
 
Figures for numbers of executions last year are just below 4000.

3,400 of those are attributed to China.

But some sources suggest the real Chinese figure may be as many as 10,000.

The United States figure is 59.

Approximatly 7,800 people were sentenced to death last year.

(RTE News)

Whoah! Last time I heard figures for this China was not nearly as bad and the United States was considerably worse, I wish I could remember what that source was, it was a few years ago. Probably bogus. Does the annual number of executions in the US fluctuate much?
 
As for non-violent criminals...drugs such as herion, weed, coke, and what not should be illegal for many reasons...1) we don't need to be like amsterdam 2) with herion and what not you stand a high chance of having many more deaths which can lead to some issues as I am sure you can imagine...I would say we should legalize weed so long as every other country does it. But just because it is non-violent doesn't mean anything to me. Shop-lifting is non-violent and that is ****. To those that are thinking "well shop-lifting effects someone else" well so does drug use.
 
I think, lady x, that if we were to use that criteria very often then nothing would ever get done. People have been arrested for DWI and found not guilty. Rape, kidnapping, etc.
Now i understand there's a level of severity talking about death, but IMO there are some folks just too freakin' evil to be allowed to exist. I'm prepared to live with a small percentage of mistakes, tho I hope it never happens to me.
 
Yes, and no innocent executed will ever commit a crime. :rolleyes:



And the point of capital punishment is what? Oh yes, a deterrent. Forgot that didn't you?
 
Seriously man, you just crackin on VOR all the time really degrades your arguements...and I am not saying that to be mean at all...it just does.
 
I would like to add these questions to the debate:

Is it hypocritical to support the death penalty but oppose abortion?

Is it hypotcritical to oppose the death penalty but support abortion?

Where does euthanasia fit in?

I'm against the death penalty, and abortion (in most cases, it's a very ... difficult issue) and would support euthanasia in certain circumstances (which I could probably only judge on a case by case basis).

Why am I against the death penalty?

1.) Two wrongs don't make a right. It's just too much like revenge for my tastes.

2.) Death penalty is state sanctioned murder. I am uncomfortable with that.

3.) There is a risk of irredeemable miscarriages of justice.

4.) I consider life imprisonment a worse punishment.

5.) AFAIK the death penalty is expensive due to the lengthly appeals process.

P.S. I live in the EU where we don't have it.
 
I disagree with this.
Firstly, I live in Canada, so there is no death penalty here. However, what you said is not based on all the facts. How many times have we heard it happen that a prisoner kills a fellow inmate? Case in point...Jeffrey Dahmer was killed this way.
 
Your list is getting longer and longer and the way you are going, better be careful as you might include yourself in it by mistake.
 
In principle I'm for the death penalty. I don't think that pedophiles, rapists, murderers etc. should be allowed to live.
But the problem is that the state is not infallible. An executed person who later turned out to be innocent can't be brought back from the dead.
As such I voted AGAINST.
 
i see what your saying,yossarin.

i agree the death penalty should be for those who commit murder,rape...

but in some cases people are given the death penalty even though they are completely innocent.
 
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