Death Penalty...right or wrong?

Some pervert kidnapped and raped and murdered a little girl on July 4th. He is a convicted level 3 offender and now they are finding connections to many more...Why should this animal live? Does ANYONE actually believe a person in jail sits and feels the least bit guilty about what they have done? They don't, they are not eaten with guilt so why keep them alive? Try and give a real answer and not one you heard someone else like your preacher use...
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Simple really,

People dont care enough about what goes on as long as it doesn't affect themselves. Those who do care enough usually are the ones saying "Killing is wrong, there are other ways" This is why there is no Death penalty in many places.

Personally I belive anyone who is a repeat offender needs some other treatment than jail since obviously jail didn't work.

2 Choices that I can think of...

1. Criminal concentration camp. Make them work to continue living, if they kill themselves then its no big loss.

2. Death penalty.

I honeslty would rather see the first one of the two because then if its done right could make a little money for other things such as catching more criminals, more schools, etc.

~BoB
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Simple really,

People dont care enough about what goes on as long as it doesn't affect themselves. Those who do care enough usually are the ones saying "Killing is wrong, there are other ways" This is why there is no Death penalty in many places.

Personally I belive anyone who is a repeat offender needs some other treatment than jail since obviously jail didn't work.

2 Choices that I can think of...

1. Criminal concentration camp. Make them work to continue living, if they kill themselves then its no big loss.

2. Death penalty.

I honeslty would rather see the first one of the two because then if its done right could make a little money for other things such as catching more criminals, more schools, etc.

~BoB

I think only if a rapist, a child rapist, a murderer is to total 100.0000000000% proved guilty by all possible scientific means, with absolutely 0.00000000000% probability that this person can NOT have done it, then death penalty is right. But if there is even the tiniest possibility for a doubt, then it should be life sentence...
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Simple really,

People dont care enough about what goes on as long as it doesn't affect themselves. Those who do care enough usually are the ones saying "Killing is wrong, there are other ways" This is why there is no Death penalty in many places.

Personally I belive anyone who is a repeat offender needs some other treatment than jail since obviously jail didn't work.

2 Choices that I can think of...

1. Criminal concentration camp. Make them work to continue living, if they kill themselves then its no big loss.

2. Death penalty.

I honeslty would rather see the first one of the two because then if its done right could make a little money for other things such as catching more criminals, more schools, etc.

~BoB

I like option #1 better also. At least they could pay back society a bit...Be a good deterrent also.

I think only if a rapist, a child rapist, a murderer is to total 100.0000000000% proved guilty by all possible scientific means, with absolutely 0.00000000000% probability that this person can NOT have done it, then death penalty is right. But if there is even the tiniest possibility for a doubt, then it should be life sentence...

Personally, I would much rather be sentenced to death than be forced to spend the rest of my life tucked away in a ten by ten cell with a guy named Bubba...

'Give me liberty or give me death'... ;)

We punish killers because killing is the ultimate crime.

But to punish them by killing?
Surely that is committing the same crime? Becoming like the killer?

Deterrent:
The USA has the death penalty, the countries of western Europe don't.
Which has the higher murder rate? It's the USA. This suggests the death penalty is not a deterrent. In fact maybe it goes the other way, serving to brutalise society and devalue life. Or whatever theory you like the facts are there to be seen.

We punish killers because killing is the ultimate crime.

But to punish them by killing?
Surely that is committing the same crime? Becoming like the killer?

Deterrent:
The USA has the death penalty, the countries of western Europe don't.
Which has the higher murder rate? It's the USA. This suggests the death penalty is not a deterrent. In fact maybe it goes the other way, serving to brutalise society and devalue life. Or whatever theory you like the facts are there to be seen.

My personal opinion on capital punishment is that it is wrong because I think that there are NO circumstances under which any indivudal (or the state, for that matter) has the right to terminate or severely restrict the life of another indivdual. For that reason, I also oppose long jail sentences, although I can't think of any alternative punishment ATM, either.

The death penalty is barbaric
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The death penalty is barbaric

I know I will be disagreed...

But in my opinion, persons who destroy a life or a soul just because they want - I explicitly mean murderers(*) and rapists - don't earn to have the right to be treated as humans anymore. They are monsters and the society needs to be saved against them even by taking the monster's life. An animal which kills a human is killed though animals only attack humans either because of fear or other natural, instinctive reasons - so a murderer (see footnote) also earns to be killed.

* According to the German definition, a murderer is: "whoever kills a human being out of murderous lust, to satisfy his sexual desires, from greed or otherwise base motives, treacherously or cruelly or with means dangerous to the public or in order to make another crime possible or cover it up."
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The death penalty is barbaric

So is locking people in Cages...But I wouldn't want them still on the streets. War is barbaric but we still seem to fight them. Most countries in the World are still barbaric...That is a part of living and dying. If you take a life in anger yours should be subject to the family of the one you took. That would be fair but then life ISN'T fair....

The death penalty is barbaric

So is locking people in Cages...But I wouldn't want them still on the streets. War is barbaric but we still seem to fight them. Most countries in the World are still barbaric...That is a part of living and dying. If you take a life in anger yours should be subject to the family of the one you took. That would be fair but then life ISN'T fair....

So that's all right then, we just respond to one form of barbarism with another? How is society to progress if we give an eye for an eye?

The death penalty is barbaric

So is locking people in Cages...But I wouldn't want them still on the streets. War is barbaric but we still seem to fight them. Most countries in the World are still barbaric...That is a part of living and dying. If you take a life in anger yours should be subject to the family of the one you took. That would be fair but then life ISN'T fair....

So that's all right then, we just respond to one form of barbarism with another? How is society to progress if we give an eye for an eye?