The death Penalty

Jemah · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 209

R_M, i say you should get the death penalty!

Beta6 · **Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:42 pm**

Republican_Man · **Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:23 pm**

voy416 · **Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:19 pm**

I think it should be over 18 at least at 18 you are legal to go to jail and you should have commonsense on what you are doing.
The Death penalty is bad but what should the world do to people who are as i say crazy to kill people or rape people sure you can lock them up until they are old and gray but hell sometimes the crazy people do get off easy
that is my opinion and i leave it at that

snowcat · **Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:45 pm**

I only skimmed the posts before mine, but wanted to put in a few pennies here:

I am aginst the death penalty.

Mostly the matter of the death penalty is a matter of ideals. One is either for or against because of one's personal idea about what justice is.

I think no one is entitled to take someone else's life, especially not the state. This rule can, in my opinion, not be broken because some low-life decided to take someone else's life. If the state thinks it can be the one exception to that rule because it is the state and because the criminal being punished truly deserves it, you break that very elemental rule.

Not to mention indeed, the faults people make, wether they are good or bad lawyers, or wether theres dna proof available or not, or wether witnesses remember things screwed up (memory is often screwed up!) and that no state should, in my opinion, be willing to make even ONE mistake where a human life is concerned. After all, I want a society that measures itself by its ideals, not by the practices of its criminals.

And yes, to be imprisoned for the rest of your life is, I think, more cruel. If someone murders a person, I dont want them to get the painless, easy, fast death(in most cases not the kind of death they gave their victims), I want them to think about what they did for the rest of their miserable lives!

And invariably, the issue about money then comes up "But it is expensive to spend our tax dollars on the clothing and food of these low-lives" Yes, it is. What are you saying, that ideals should be cheap otherwise they aren't worth pursuing?

webtaz99 · **Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:28 pm**

No. I'm saying my tax dollars are better spent on people who are not proven low-lifes.

I wonder how many people who oppose the death penalty would be willing to register with the government, so that only they support life in prison with their taxes?

Also, anti-death-penalty folks "always" bring up the innocenet man. The state's ability to come to a correct and just conviction is a totally separate issue from whether the state uses capital punishment. Is an accurate justice system any less important when things like child custody are involved?

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Beta6 · **Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:07 pm**

Jemah · Lieutenant Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 209

Beta6 · **Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:36 pm**