The Death Penalty. Whats your views?

I'd support the death penalty if you killed your five children.

Would you?

if i were stuck in a dismal prison cell for my whole life,thinking about the crime i committed i would ASK them to kill me.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...=7#From%20DPIC

Take a look at that and do a google search on death penatly price vs. life in prison if you're convinced the death penalty is cheaper.

Life is prison is cheaper.

Since the death penalty has been ok'ed by the courts, 1973

500,000 murders

1000 people put to death through use of the death penalty.

thats 5000 murders per convicted killer.......

are we really using it too much?

the numbers say......no

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Originally Posted by benagain

Sorry if it sounds harsh to anyone who disagrees, but if I had my way, they'd all be tortured and killed slowly. I'd do it myself if I could.

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Well I'm reassured. And least you'd be a sadist for truth, justice, and the american way... right? Actually, in some ways I suppose I do agree with you, certain people just don't belong among human beings...

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Originally Posted by robert42

U KILL

U SHOULD DIE.

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What about self defense? To save yourself from certain death? Or Crime of Passion?

Kill the peodos and murderers. Good day.

My veiws on the matter are that the death penalty is a way too easy way out for those who have commited evil. I think those people should have someone everyday sitting in their cell and constintly remind them how much they suck and what they did they will have to deal with in that cell for the rest of their life, how society has no use for those who think kiddnapping little girls and then hacking them up into peices is acceptable.

Well, like i said, the death penalty is a too easy way out.

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Originally Posted by Irv

i think much more than that$$

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yea its more like 30k... about the same as the average income in the US

i'm conflicted on this issue.

on the one hand...

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Originally Posted by Polymirize

I think it's absurd to think "justice" can be found by killing people. Murder is only wrong as long as the victim is an innocent huh? Bullshit.
I understand the desire for vengence, but that's nothing to build a legal system off of.

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i couldnt have said that better myself. "You have committed murder; murder is wrong; therefore we will murder you." it just doesnt make sense to me. add to that the possibility of wrongful convictions and the death penalty is just not justifiable in my eyes.

on the other hand, i think there are some crimes that need to have harsher punishments. castration for child molestation, for instance. and since i can, in my head, justify cutting off someone's balls, i'm not sure my opinion on cruel and unusual punishment (including the death penalty) is very solid.