liquidmagik Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 What is everybodys views on the death pentaly? For it?Against it?Y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 For it, only in certain cases..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totallytrance Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Against it b/c doesn't seem morally right to take someones life, I'd rather torture them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romy20 Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 I'm for it, but the death penaltys today are too easy. They should make em suffer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix_Leiter Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 Originally posted by romy20 I'm for it, but the death penaltys today are too easy. They should make em suffer. how? by making them smell your feet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o-jay® Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 Originally posted by smokesum how? by making them smell your feet That would be too quick a death. :skull: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender84 Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbman15 Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 Second on the torture thing.......i think keeping them in jail forever and suducing them to anal raping from a 500 lb guy named "tiny" is sufficient......for the most partif worse comes to worse.....they can smell o-jay's feet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzbuterfli Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 gosh - - in my opinion, violence breeds violence . . . and executing someone (or torturing them) is really just another form of violence. when you think about it, capital punishment sends a message to society that it's ok to kill someone if they've done something horrible - - so it actually makes the problem worse. and personally, i don't think that anyone or anything, not even the government, has the right to take another person's life.kazie:rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breaksny Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 Can't support a punishment that's so clearly in violation of the most basic of human rights, namely that to life, as well as international law. Judy Swallow of the BBC world service program "Newshour" interviewed a representative from Amnesty yesterday since they released their annual report on the subject and she noted that we're one of only 31 countries in the entire world that uses it @ all anymore, and 1 of only 4 that uses it extensively. The other 3 are China (which executed 3/4 of all people put to death by a government, most of them in a 2 month span of time), Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Nice company that puts us in. 111 countries have outlawed this barbaric punishment for what it is, the ultimate form of cruel, unusual and degrading punishment, as defined by the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Further, several American states have imposed moratoriums on its use for a whole host of reasons. These include the fact that it can, has been, and continues to be used to take the lives of people who are innocent of the crimes they have been convicted of after it was later found they were in fact innocent; it is used vastly disproportionately against non-whites, the poor, and the mentally ill; it does not deter homicide or any other form of violent crime; it costs more to taxpayers keep a person on death row than to sentence said person to life imprisonment; the legal counsel given to people who are often sentenced to death (again usually the poor, people of color, and the mentally ill) does not meet minimal standards for basic protections of citizen's rights under the constitution. Numerous studies have been done in the US and abroad about our death penalty system and most have found that the problems within it cannot be rectified in such a way as to make sentence a fair, legally coherent, or effective punishment. It can, must, and will one day be abolished here, as it has been in every other western nation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgym Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 Originally posted by kzbuterfli gosh - - in my opinion, violence breeds violence . . . and executing someone (or torturing them) is really just another form of violence. when you think about it, capital punishment sends a message to society that it's ok to kill someone if they've done something horrible - - so it actually makes the problem worse. and personally, i don't think that anyone or anything, not even the government, has the right to take another person's life.kazie:rolleyes: YEs, i believe that is so.Also, one of the big problems with the death penalty is the low succession rate, i.e. putting to death of a wrongly convicted felon. I wrote a paper on the death penalty, and so many times did we execute the wrong person.I'm 99% against it. Of course there's a nerve inside me that thinks (what if it happened to someone in my family or circle of friends), but the idea of "eye for an eye" to the degree of death penalty i believe is outmoded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekefreak Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 the point of the death penalty is not solely to punish people guilty of committing murder but more importantly to deter would-be murders from committing the crime. Capital Punishment as it exists today is not working as a deterant. Not enough people are put to death for their crimes as there should be. Executions should be conducted as they were in the past...publically, at the town or county court houses for all to witness. Seeing a man who was convicted of murder actually be hung...listening to the sound of his neck break and see him die would, in my opinion, make future criminals more aware of the consequences and less likely to follow through with their crimes. also, the more "humane" ways of putting people to death should be abolished and more grusome methods should be used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcapone Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 PENALTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I believe in it for certain circumstances, it really depends on the severity of the crime. Then again our justice system has it's favorites, if you know what I mean! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echostar Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 im for the death penalty if the convict wants life in prisonim for life in prison if the convict wants the death penaltywhichever one is more torture gets my vote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breaksny Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 if you want proof of the part of my previous post on how capital punishment has been used to take the life of a person later found innocent of committing the crime he was convicted of, after his execution, watch "Frontline: Requiem to Frank Lee Smith" on pbs (Channel 13 in NY) tonite @ 9pm. The very term "humane execution" " is an oxymoron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zekefreak Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 hey, innocent people die every day and in many cases their sacrifice is worth it. Sure, an innocent man here or there will be put to death. Not to sound apathetic but, shit happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgirlie037 Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 all for it......innocent people get killed everyday.....i say for the death penalty we torture the shit out of them to a slow painful death!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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