ghandi once said "an eye for an eye will leave the world blind" and who can disagree with ghandi |
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What I want to know is this: how can a country - a modern, free democracy - ever justify the death sentence as a means of punishment. We live in a modern world with an intelligent and understanding society, this stuff should not be happening... we've progressed beyond the stone age, people. |
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ghandi once said "an eye for an eye will leave the world blind" and who can disagree with ghandi |
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Giving people life sentences is much better then killing them. |
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On the other hand, capital punishment can function as a fear factor. If you know you can be sentenced to death, you will think twice before killing those people. |
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I support capital punishment, but only if there is not even a shred of doubt as to who comitted the crime. That would be DNA evidence in most cases. |
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I agree with capital punishment. The life sentences in this country (not sure about America) can be finished in only twelve years provided you are well behaved in jail. And personally, I'm not too hot on having to walk outside, and stroll past guys who could potentially be people that killed somebody else, and for all I know, might reoffend (who is to say that there isn't something a bit off in their brain?). Costs more money, another life taken - not good. |
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So if there is a little doubt its ok to send them to jail to waste the rest of their life away instead of killing them? I don't see a difference. You always want to make sure you have the right guy, and if your sure enough to send him to jail for the rest of his life, you should also be sure enough to kill him. |
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I change my mind back and forth on this issue all the time. |
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If someone is found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for a crime as viscous as murder, hears what I think. The most important action would be to remove them from harming others. The second thing I think is as others have said; there is a chance that they may not have committed the actual crime. Beyond reasonable doubt is not enough to sentence them to death. Even if they are guilty of the crime, who are we to take a life we did not create. I think the only solution is to set aside an island somewhere where they can fight among their selves if that’s what they want to do. A country for criminals. But not allow them to develop with the power to hurt anyone else. Sort of like an Iraq with bars around it. Lol. Then if it was ever discovered that one of them where innocent, they could be brought home. |
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Woo I think I've opened a veritable can of worms here... |
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Roller, I don't think families are sick for wanting revenge against the killers of their family members. I have never been inside your head, but I can assure you that if somebody killed your child or mother, you would want the son of a bitch dead and would love to kill him yourself. You are not on his level if you do. You are acting out of retaliation, but he wasn't. That's the difference. He put the overwhelming desire for revenge in you, and he has to let you get rid of it somehow. |
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Don't think about those damn kangaroos.
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I don't know if someone already mentioned this, but, capital punishment is proved NOT to work as a fear factor. |
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He will be able to mingle with people who think just like he does. He will very possibly be able to watch the sunset. Some prisons are in the mountains, and if so, he will be able to see them every day. He might see the ocean from the prison and be assigned to pick up trash on a beach. (Alatraz, the relatively terrible prison Al Capone went to, was on an island in San Francisco Bay.) He will be able to kill people again (guards, prison mates, wardens, prison teachers, janitors, cafeteria workers, riot swat team members, people like you he can kill if he escapes, etc.). He will be able to watch movies and television. He will be able to play cards with the kind of people he would be hanging out with if he weren't in prison. He will be able to listen to a stereo. He will be able to smoke cigarettes and have access to drugs brought in on the underground. He will be able to live... not a life you or I would prefer, but I would choose it way over death. The scumbag would deserve to be as dead as digested fried rice. My only hangup is that his family wouldn't deserve for him to be dead, for all we know. |
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