Death Penalty

[JamesHunt]

Should prisoners on death row suffer when given the death penalty, or should they go out 'out of it?'

Execution - Horizon: How To Kill A Human Being

[trish]

I would rather see the penalty carried out efficiently, quickly and professionally. I see nothing wrong with an old fashioned firing squad.

[Nowhere]

There is an ethical problem with the death penalty:

Mistakes.

There have been numerous people exonerated after being convicted and there will be more in the future. The system is not perfect, and that will aways be a biproduct of a good, but still human, system.

Don't get me wrong, most aren't, and most people convicted earn their punishment, but...

If you are to be for it, you have to accept upon your own conscience that you will have a number of innocent people killed as a consequence.

It might only be a handful of people over time, but it will occur.

So, if you believe in it, you have to believe those innocent deaths are fine, in the grand scheme of things.

I really haven't heard one person who is for the death penalty respond to that statement honestly yet.

[Dino Velvet]

I believe in the Death Penalty but I don't see a reason to make them suffer. Does anybody know why the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, is still alive? He's like the poster boy for the Death Penalty.

[JamesHunt]

I would rather see the penalty carried out efficiently, quickly and professionally. I see nothing wrong with an old fashioned firing squad.

in 1/5

"recently, firing squads have been deemed unreliable by the vietnamese government"

bizarre, maybe the vietnamese firing squads have poor eyesight

[fred41]

There is an ethical problem with the death penalty:

Mistakes.

There have been numerous people exonerated after being convicted and there will be more in the future. The system is not perfect, and that will aways be a biproduct of a good, but still human, system.

Don't get me wrong, most aren't, and most people convicted earn their punishment, but...

If you are to be for it, you have to accept upon your own conscience that you will have a number of innocent people killed as a consequence.




It might only be a handful of people over time, but it will occur.

So, if you believe in it, you have to believe those innocent deaths are fine, in the grand scheme of things.

I really haven't heard one person who is for the death penalty respond to that statement honestly yet.

Then allow me to be the first ....and it doesn't have to be that way. There are cases that are way, way beyond a reasonable doubt - where the perpetrator DEFINITELY did it. You can be FOR the death penalty..but agree that the criteria for using it would be way narrower than it might be used for now (instead of not at all)


.......by the way...technically - the guillotine is pretty humane, it just doesn't look that way.

[trish]

Personally, I'm ambiguous about the death penalty. I answered as I did, because I think regardless of whether the prisoner is innocent or guilty, the penalty should be carried out professionally.

Unfortunately juries don't return degrees of probable guilt. They return a verdict of innocent or guilty. So inevitably innocent people are found guilty and punish for crimes they didn't commit.

Death is irrevocable. But taking away years of freedom is also revocable. It always strikes me as odd, that a nation that claims to revere freedom is so quick to take it away from people as a punishment for crime. I'd rather take twelve lashes than twelve months. I'd rather be put to death and locked up forever. But then parole complicates the whole thing as well, doesn't it?

[justatransgirl]

Everyone should DIE, I'll go first.

In my next house we are going to have the "Armor Room" where I can display my suit of armor. And to go with it I think I'm going to build a simulated electric chair. I mean who do you know who has an electric chair? I was thinking of maybe hooking a stun gun up to it for fun!

LOL,
TS Jamie

PS - JamesHunt - I like your new avatar...

[baileyandkc]

Method of the murder is the method of execution!

Or bring back the Old West and lets have public hangings!

[Teydyn]

Better to NOT kill 100 guilty and "just" lock them up for life then kill 1 innocent.