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If someone kills someone and then is caught, should they recieve the death penalty?

If someone commits a murder, do they deserve to die??? Does that just sink us to their level or is it justice?


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  • NO!

    The death penalty just sinks us to their level! It doesn't matter what the circumstances of death are, or the reason, it's all murder if you break it down. Let the person rot in Jail. Killing them only lets them make a mockary of you! If someone says that a life for a life is fair, it just shows how childish their views are!!! HOWEVER! I feel so strongly about Ausama Bin Laden that I would be childish enough to say let him die!!! But thinking about it, he would just mock us all by saying that he will be rewarded in death anyway, LET HIM ROT IN JAIL! The death penalty is just a petty humans excuse for justice!

    23%  Voted for by pure-spirit, Weydon, petethemeat, chaostheory89, Approaching Autumn. (8 total)
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  • Pro-Penalty

    The death penalty is not just for the sake of justice. It is for the sake of protection on society's part. A murderer has forfeited his or her right to life by showing him or herself as a threat to the good of society. So great a threat they are, that they must be eliminated entirely. If you have a mad cow in the herd that is attacking the other cows, you don't send it to therepy and keep it alone. You destroy it for the sake of the herd. But mankind has a much worse dilema. Often enough, our problem is not with a mental disease, it is with freedom. And if humans are so base as to use their freedom to kill another person, I think that they should be effectively removed from society. Perhaps prison is sufficient for this, but I think that execution is also sufficient. The death penalty also instills a sense of fear into the hearts of would-be offenders. This is my opinion, however, and people can and will do as they wish.

    8%  Voted for by keyman7, The Blind Bandit, Color Me Red.
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  • Live to rot

    I believe that if someone commits the crime of murder, then we should let them live.

    Granted, they should live to rot in a cell for the rest of their lives, but we should let them live none the less.

    In such cases, the death penalty is a saving grace for murderers. I would much rather die quickly than rot slowly.

    5%  Voted for by Just Paper, spanner.
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  • Two wrongs don't make a right.

    Simple as.

    5%  Voted for by Hypnotize, spanner.
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  • All I know is....
    I would rather go meet my maker having been willing to have my tax dollars spent to feed and house those viewed as deserving death rather than prefering my tax dollars to be spent on more killing. For me to respect one life over another is hypocritical of me. Of course, I actually have no choice in the matter since I live in a state that executes more people than most. I really hate being forced to take part in such death rituals.
    5%  Voted for by Violet Moodswing, spanner.
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  • Doesn't Really Make a Difference

    In truth, the number of people who recieve the death penalty makes no difference in the number of people who are murdered. It seems like the death penalty just gives a false sense of security to some people. At first glance, it seems like common logic that if you kill the killer, the number of deaths will go down. But this is not entirely true.

    For example: Years ago in Hawaii, when a woman was attacked by a tiger shark, groups of people automatically started killing large tiger sharks that were the supposed killer. Still, there were attacks on humans by sharks, and for every new attack, more sharks were killed. Over time, people discovered that the number of sharks killed didn't really decrease the number of people attacked or the chances of being attacked.

    This can apply to the death penalty. Even though supposed murderers are being put to death, when you really think about it, it doesn't really do much in the long run.

    Personally, I don't belive anyone deserves the death penalty. Nobody deserves to die at the hands of another person. Even if someone does kill another person, I don't believe the death penalty will really help.

    5%  Voted for by aria94, spanner.
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  • Costly and Ineffective

    First of all, I love all the assumptions that I see as I read this. It's great fun, because it shows how little thought has actually been put into the topic.

    If you look simply at the facts, and without bias regard the matter simply as whether it's practical or not, you come to realize two perhaps startling facts about the death penalty. The first is that it is costly. For example, in New Jersey, more than a quarter of a billion dollars has been spent on death penalty expenses. Want to know the kicker? New Jersey hasn't executed anybody since 1976. Many people when asked about why they consider the death penalty a viable solution for crime is because of overcrowded prisons. We have very little room to keep our prisoners. So why not build new prisons? Why, we are short on money. I'm willing to bet that if there is a quarter of a billion dollars spent in a state that hasn't executed anyone in 30 years, there is plenty more in states where execution is more common.

    The second fact echos what aria94 said. It's ineffective. In fact, a report made by the Tenessee Office of Research states that the huge costs of death penalty trials are put to an ineffective use. The death penalty does not prevent crime. It does not deter crime. It just sucks up precious dollars.

    Religious and philosophical views aside, there is no reason to coninue exectuing people. We could do a much better job at fighting crime without capital punishment. We could more prisons. Bigger prisons. We could help improve our police forces. We could create a system that might acutally work.

    5%  Voted for by Jakob, spanner.
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  • Possibilities

    Only if it is rightly justified.

    A person may have killed a man because that same man killed his wife and childern , would you send him to death? OR was it rightly justice. For the person who killed the wife and children was never caught but killed two innocents anyway. SO with close scpeulation you have to admit that not every death deserves death in return.

    Man V.S Nature

    Man kills nature all the time but yet we do not condem them to death because we believe it is rightly justified cause and for instance either that or it was in paper for rights. But a man does not have rights to kill another man unless he is being hanged but the court or sent to the electric chair or another one that I would rather not say that is also the cause of many un justified creeps.

    Man V.S Man

    Yes, and No. If someone killed my husband, I kick their ass then tie their hands and paste them to a silver plater at the police stations front door. But I would not kill in return, its a law by religon and society. But if I did kill him, would it be justified. Double jeopardy? A Paradox in which there is not a single blasted way out.

    Self Defense? In sanity? Desease effects? Hallucinations? You tell me. Would you send them to death?

    But if it was murder. Its murder. The End.

    ~ Augusta...

    5%  Voted for by THE-fortunecookie, checkmate.
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  • not at all

    Death penalty isn't exactly preventing anything... people who want to kill will do it anyway.. that's just some kind of cruel revenge. Who is the state after all, who are humans to decide who dies? Death penalty is just inhuman and stupid... I'm totally against it... It solves nothing just causes more pain to more people.

    5%  Voted for by Dienush, spanner.
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  • Death Penalty

    That is always a hard one. I guess it depends on the circumstances and who is involved in the 'drama'. Until we understand 'consciousness', there will always be those who choose to take other lives because of power and hate. When we kill, we must understand, we do not know what destiny that soul was to accomplish on earth. For now, I guess I do believe in the death penalty, because the soul will 'understand' and have a choice on the other side to redeem what has happened, or that the victim learns how to forgive from that side. I think we learn in life and on the 'other' side, we still have our consciousness and that is what we call Soul Evolution. I do think that prisons should give their inmates nothing but the highest caliber of information for 'life challenges' and consciousness. I worked in a bookstore and these the trash they pick out for their inmates would turn a saint bad. We must learn to challenge our minds and get to know our spirits, understand that 'all is connected'. Without this, people are not given a chance to learn who they are and make their on choices. We have free will. We can either use it for better or worse. It is our call.

    Voted for by Angels43.
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  • HELL YEAH!!!

    Anyone who commits a crime that either is killing someone or causes someone to die should be killed and not but a lethal injection but by something cheaper; it's a waste of tax money! Just shoot 'em or hang 'em or send 'em to Texas and let them take care of it. Texas has got the right idea: (as METALLICA cd says...) "Kill 'em All!!!"

    Voted for by lifebabe .
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  • who are we to say!

    well yes i belive that when someone takes a life they deserve nothing more than the same (death). but who are we too say who dies and who lives, it is not our call. i belive that with all my heart but dont agree with it because if someone i loved was killed i would want them to die for it but it is just not right. The world works in mysterious ways and i belive in Karma very strongly, sometimes living after you have committed such a crime is a worse punishment than dying for it. i can only accept that i live in this world i didnt make it!

    Voted for by FaLoN.
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  • two justice systems
    It seems to me that there is two justice systems in this country based on class.(ex. OJ) in order to combat this if you are accused of a crime where you are likely to be sent to jail if convicted you should have a lawyer assigned to you. this lawyer will have no other cases for as long as the trials go on that includes appeals. this lawyer should be judged by his peers to be of the highest quality. all evidence should be taken into account including DNA than if convicted the criminal should be executed on the town common by the means the legislature of the state see fit. if found not guilty all evidence of his trial should be wiped from the record. it should be as if the trial never happened.
    Voted for by bob2314.
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  • STUPIDITY

    "it's all murder if you break it down. Let the person rot in Jail" ARE YOU STUPID? MUST BE! WHO DO YOU THINK PAYS WHEN WE LET HIM ROT IN JAIL. TAX PAYERS THAT'S WHO. it costs more the $100,000 a year to let these fuckers rot in jail. so you are going to try to tell me that this man gets to murder someone, and we can prove that he murdered someone, and then we put him under a roof, give him a place to sleep, give him two hot meals every day for the rest of his live! what kind of bull is that! i say that we should hang them! i will still give them the due process they have a right to, but if we prove in a court of law that someone murdered another person, i say hang them. and better yet HANG THEM IN PUBLIC! you wonder why murder doesn't stop, CUZ MURDERERS GET TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIFE WITHOUT HAVING TO WORK FOR THEIR MEALS. start hanging murderers in public, and it'll stop happening!!!

    Voted for by RothMcVeReagan.
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  • Murder,death,kill and then some
    First we need to define murder and kill. They are actually quite different. God condones killing, He does not condone murder.

    Murder most certainly does deserve the death penalty and according to the Bible, so does rape deserve the death penalty.
    Taking of human life, without just cause is a murder and rape is also taking of a human life, as the victim is forever changed mentally(soul)and body.
    The spirit is broken, but this can be mended by our Father in Heaven. Same for murder victims. They are destroyed physically and mentally, by the murderer, but their spirit although broken can never be destroyed and is mended by God alone.

    Rape/murder; both the same and both deserve death. Both are unjust and have no permissions or reasoning.

    To kill a human: The very use of the word kill, means justifiable defense and should only be used in reference to justified killing.

    To disagree with the above, is to place more importance on the flesh, than on the spirit. Execution is actually the more humane course of action.
    Voted for by frndofyaweh.
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