are you in for or against the death penalty

[zocco]

What's the point of building prisons in a penal colony?




Just joking

our family tree has been checked on both sides can't find a convict anywhere

Damn i wanted some claim to fame

[trish]

well for one i am prepared to keep paying
maybe we need to be looking at why so many are needing to be locked up not just long term but short term as well

Or if they're even "needing" to be locked up at all. There are other penalties a State could impose other than confiscating someone's freedom, which is an expensive thing to do. Fines, service, etc.

[zocco]

their are to many now with mental illnisses etc being locked up in prisons now
what is happening with them when they are let out?

just my opinion but our whole judicial system needs to be looked at and refreshed totally

but then of course for more who wants to pay for everything

[Prospero]

I opened this thread with trepidation - fearing to find lots baying for blood. I am pleased to see our community, thus far, tilts largely against state sanctioned murder.

[runningdownthatdream]

maybe exile to an island is the answer then there is no blood on the hands

You and the ironic statements again..............................

Look at what happened in Australia - Britain sent the convicts there and those convicts turned around and perpetrated their criminal acts on others less able to defend themseves. I like Carlin's solution though:

[Faldur]

I opened this thread with trepidation - fearing to find lots baying for blood. I am pleased to see our community, thus far, tilts largely against state sanctioned murder.

Looks pretty evenly split, 2 against, 1 undecided, 2 for. Tough decision to make, but I believe there are beasts in our society that are deserved. As an example someone that tortures, rapes and kills an innocent. If you have overwhelming evidence, I side with death.

[Erika1487]

Ohio still has the Death penalty. I support it.

[russtafa]

just lock criminals away and leave them to do what they will with each other

[robertlouis]

I'm opposed to the death penalty on three grounds.

- the risk of putting any innocent person to death is simply not acceptable, far too many sad examples over the years.

- any country which professes to be Christian or to uphold Christian values should not revert to the Old Testament stance of "an eye for an eye". That is revenge, not justice.

- I find the concept of judicial murder every bit as repulsive as the crime of murder itself.

[Yvonne183]

no matter if crime is so evil are you against the death penalty no matter what? are you for the death penalty with reservations ?

I am for the death penalty on reservations.

I am torn on this issue. I can understand what Robert says about putting to death an innocent person but on the other hand there are so many evil, very evil people that,, well,, need to be killed. I think of some of the abusers I ran into as a young person and I do have evil thoughts of wanting them dead. Whether I could really see that happen, I probably couldn't,,, I get upset when I see a dead animal run over by a car.