I have often questioned myself. Can anyone commit a crime that is worthy of being put to death. I am not sure what my position is on this.
Please, discuss. I wish to hear your point of view on it.
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Yes15% Voted for by Energizer Bunny, NakedFairy629, ohsweetie970, Luciferschild, poetic justice two. (10 total)
Yes, I do feel a certain crime is punishable by death.
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Yes11% Voted for by Energizer Bunny, Diamond Dust, ohsweetie970, wbiro, left over interest. (7 total)
This is where a Bush shines. Simple and right. He doesn’t trip over his own intellectual shoelaces in dealing with such matters. The criminal knew the consequences. Administer them. Show some backbone.
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Death is too humane11% Voted for by BabyMowgli, zehnten, Annabel Lee, scarlet dreamer, ScornLily. (7 total)
i’m against the death penalty, death is much too quick for some people, let the bastards rot in a cell for the rest of their life. and while we’re on the subject, rapists should not be allowed out of prison ever.
~Kate
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yes in certain situations....9% Voted for by NakedFairy629, prettyangeleyes, ohsweetie970, justJane, -TheLoneWolf-. (6 total)
i thnk there are situations where someone deserves the death sentence, i don’t want to sound rude or mean or awful but that is what i believe. i believe if someone kills a child especuially their own they should be put to death, they do not deserve to live if they are cowardly enough to kill an innocent, defenseless child. if someone kills multiple people or the serial killers and it has to be proven that he or she has killed all the people they are blames for, if you take that many lives and ruin that many lives why should you be allowed to live and walk and breathe on this earth when they never can agan. there are other situations but only one or two, these are the two main ones and irks me to thnk that people ca be out and walking after killing someone after so many years, what has our society come to whe murderers walk around with us after serving what 10-15 years in jail, it is ridiculous.
Ash
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Nope7% Voted for by Kevin, whisperinghope, Luciferschild, Happy 420, nihilismisdead.
I speak for myself. Do what you will with me I will not wish ill will upon you. To wish ill will upon you is to wish pain on myself.
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Punishable by death4% Voted for by candyecane2002, ScornLily, BabyMowgli.
Yes, I think there are times when a person has commited such a crime that they deserve to die. But I also think, in a way, that dieing is letting the person take the easy way out. Instead of enduring long days waiting for their death…they get to escape that by embracing a more painless death.
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Death as a Penalty ?4% Voted for by candyecane2002, SoCiAlLy--ExCePtEd, razvan784.
The USA is one of the only industrial countries to accept the death penalty. In a philiophical sense if someone has killed and that crime considered so profane only death as a sentence appropriate says clearly that society accepts killing and is morally not superior to the murderer. The USA is a primitive and fear driven culture in many ways. It does some of the most barbaric things and denies it does them. Often it just ignores its own actions or finds convenient rationalizations for them. Reasons often forwarded for death peanalty somehow ring hollow. Eye for eye, a justice of take a life, you forfeit your own. Political pressures from the famalies of victims for revenge often drive criminal sentencing. The revenge is confused with justice. Usually the more intelligent and educated one becomes the less you can support the death penalty. However, the human animal is capable of the most depraved and sick acts as criminal history clearly shows time and again.
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An Eye For An Eye?4% Voted for by Psyche, whisperinghope, Cherub.
An eye for an eye? After a while won’t we all just go blind?
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yes but...4% Voted for by BabyMowgli, bleedingarms, Kazrith.
yes they can but i think it is better for someone who has murdered someone or parralized someone ect. to rott in jail for the rest of their live because they are getting off way to easily by just being put to death, they should have to spend the rest of their lives in a jail cell thinking about what they have done. So after a while if there are old u know bout to die then yes put them to death but other wise let them rot in jail.
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of course3% Voted for by lalalamelodie, The Blind Bandit.
so many people have done horrible things and in my opinion deserve to get the death penalty(with the assurance that they are truely to blame for the crime) i mean the crazy psycos who rape over 200 women and go to prison fro 50 years don’t deserve to even live in that jail cell. or the people who hurt children. or there are those people out there who kill people for the “fun” of it, yeah pretty sure we don’t need them around anymore…and the people who kill entire families or the people who cut people up in little bits…yeah those are the kind of people who desereve to die the way that the people that they killed died, there are too many horrible things that happen and people arent punished harsh enough for the deeds that they do. they get out fo jail anf they do the same thing over again. on the news the other day i heard that some people are trying to pass a bill in my state to castrate the extreme pedifiles. i think that with the extent that some have gone to wiht children and with the fact that children learn by example and the memories of a painful or abused childhood cna scar someone for life i think that they too deserve the death penalty…
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System is Flawed3% Voted for by AllDayDreamer, mbbg0.
There are far too many problems with the system that in the US it should be halted everywhere, like Republican George Ryan did in Illinois. There are problems everwhyere, and someone doesn’t deserve to die for something he didn’t do.
That said, in a perfect system, I do believe there are situations that are appopriate for it.
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No3% Voted for by angelofnogood, MURDER she screamed.
Its hypocritical. Its like you killed them? Well now I get to kill you. Plus if they sit in prison for the rest of their lives they have to think about what they did. And for some people it’ll make them crazy.
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yuh huh3% Voted for by chemicalromantic, reaper of chaos.
yeh but i only think they should be put to death if they have taken someones life first, because they cant get away with it, they cant get another chance in society, they have killed, they will be killed, plain and simple, and extremely fair i say
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No3% Voted for by bleedingarms, x----LaughterOfHate.
I do not think so because then the person killing them has done a deed worse than the one the criminal has done. He/she shouldn’t be worthy of praise for that.
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Justified?Voted for by Coconut.
Honestly, I have to ask… Are we, as people, justified to kill those who have wronged? Are we justified to pass that kind of judgement? If we don’t, who does? I don’t think we as humans have the right to justify in killing someone, whether they’ve wronged or not. I’m not saying I believe in God, but I’m not saying that we ourselves soley rule over what’s justified in our world.
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right in itselfVoted for by VanGuard.
some say we don’t have the right to put somone to death for killing somone else.. well say this who gave them the right to kill. If somone don’t stop this or that crime it will keep going on. To me i think there should be more crimes punisable by death. the persons true test will come in time.
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noVoted for by concrete sky.
Capital punishment is inhumane and hypocritical. I’d say the only right a person would have to kill another was in self defense or in order to defend another. Once the killing has occured, killing the perpetrator will not bring the person back. Life imprisonment will keep them from recidivism and they will have to live with the reality that their crime has resulted in their lack of freedom.
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Who can sayVoted for by Sir Dakkon.
In your own eyes, does that person deserve to die? A man kills 13 children, then drinks their blood. Does he deserve the death penalty? In the eyes of those who loved those children, yes. In others eyes, he should be put into a mental ward. It’s all a matter of who thinks what.
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Lots of questions:Voted for by PsydewaysTears.
How much of what a person does can they be blamed for, everything?
How severe of a punishment does a person deserve for doing the most unimaginably evil things?
Is it more important to rid humanity of a criminal’s earthly presence than it is to just detain and prevent them from causing further damage?
Would you push a button that would kill every person you’ve ever hated if it existed?
Do you believe that you know better than most other people which of us deserve to have a life and those of us who don’t?
At what point does somebody’s bargain to be alive become ruptured beyond the point of earthly salvation?
If the only way to put criminals to death was with your own two bare hands…. would you still be just as apt to see them die?
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