Originally Posted by Angelwings411

In all honesty, I don't think the death penalty is fair and I am absolutely against it.

1- If we are putting someone to death for putting someone else to death, how does that make any sense? Life for a life? That makes US the murderers.

2- Some people are convicted, killed, and later found innocent. Not to mention some people are mental and have no idea of what is right or wrong. How can you kill someone who can't depict what they did was right or wrong?

3- It costs America [not sure about other countries] more money to impose the death penalty, than it does life in prison.

4- The death penalty is kinda/sorta putting an evil person out of their misery. Instead, let them spend life in prison reflectiing on their actions, and maybe getting ass-raped on the side?

Originally Posted by Dreamer

1)If somone went on a killing spree through your city killing people and (possibly) degrading their bodies, woudn't you want him(or her) dead? I would

Originally Posted by Dreamer

2)I do feel bad about innocent people who are put away.
I also feel that the mental insanity plea is used too much in general. There is a big difference between insane and morally corrupt psychopaths.

Originally Posted by Dreamer

3) I did not know, thanks for the fact =P

Originally Posted by Dreamer

4)This could work. Although some may still pose a threat in prison. As long as they have no possibility of perole, I think some could use some reflection time.

Originally Posted by Angelwings411

They put the worst with the worst anyways so if one of them hurt one another, just think of it as payback as bitchy as that sounds.

Originally Posted by LuklaAdvocate

In this very same post, you just that that, "Eye for an Eye isn't justice, it's called Vengeance."
Which is it? The death penalty is vengeance and so is "payback."

Originally Posted by Angelwings411

Good point.
Well since they put worst with the worst, they probably have the capability to hold their own.

Originally Posted by LuklaAdvocate

If some 230 pound murderer, who strangled his victims to death, went against some little squirt who used firearms for his murders, I highly doubt the second guy is going to be holding his own against a guy who weights 2X more than he does.

Originally Posted by Sasha Vassily

The best ways to apply death penalties are :-

• Child rapists - Feed them to pigs
• CIA spies - Feed them to pigs
• Serial killers - Firing squad
• Cold blooded murderers - Firing squad
• Drug cartel leaders - Drug overdosage

I am sure the first two will be opposed by a certain section of people because they make up a lot of these kinds.

Originally Posted by Angelwings411

Nice job, dude.
+rep

Well for the record, do you think the death penalty is wrong or right?

Originally Posted by LuklaAdvocate

Thanks.

I'm against the death penalty. Both from a moral standpoint, and because it doesn't seem to be a deterrent to crime. In fact, from what I've seen, places with the death penalty actually have a higher crime rate than places without the death penalty.

Originally Posted by seneca

morally wrong, but real world wise the right thing to do.

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for someone to be in jail for 25 years, therefore it's cheaper to make them extinct.

Originally Posted by wholeon

if zie believed what zie did was wrong, zie would not have done it in the first place. I don't think there's anything you can do to change hir mind--even if you kill hir or zie spends hir life in prison, zie will always believe zie was somehow "wronged" by The Man.