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Capital Punishment?

HMMWVHMMWV Member Posts: 68 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Do you think it should be reinstated (sp?) in the US (all states)
s**t...
I'd love it if it was reinstated.
I wish they'd changed the law too.
Man...
If the law was up to me then I'd change the law in a way that you'd get death sentence for many more crimes than now.
Death for rape, for murder, for three or more assaults with a deadly weapon, for f***ing kids, for repeated break-ins and stuff.
I don't believe in sentence for life or lets say 30 years.
Death is the answer!
Also, if some dude is a career criminal who gets jailed all the time for bigger-than-minor offences then it means that prison time does not give him any lesson so why should he live if only thing hell do after getting out of jail is breaking the law?
Also, I also think this way because keeping these * in prison costs money - our money!

Do you agree or disagree? And why?

PEACE!
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  • JBBooksJBBooks Member Posts: 103 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The death penalty, what does it stop?
    Repetition

    One vote for.
    JBB


    I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to share this opinion until all the cases of DNA evidence proved the innocence of so many in IL (?) and the that forensic b**ch in OK (?) was shown to have falsified test results in so many cases. I still believe in the death penalty, but have serious qualms about it being applied unless the evidence is absolutely overwhelming. Bad enough the perps destroy people's lives, but if we, as society, do so also, it puts us on their level. The problem is not with the penalty, it is with the system of ascertaining guilt. And that cuts both ways, with technical procedural errors being exploited to free the truly guilty.
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I live in VA and we have the Death penaity here,and they use the good old chair.I wouldnt want to have to be on a jury that comes out with the Death Penalty.As long as Im LEO I dont have to worry about sitting on a Jury.But I would demand alot of proof before I could be for it,as someone said with Dna now things are much easier to prove.

    Rugster
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  • Iroquois ScoutIroquois Scout Member Posts: 930 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    While some crimes deserve the death penalty,your plan would take us back to the Europe of the 1620's when stealing a loaf of bread could get your neck stretched. After all, this is one reason that your ancestors came to this country to persecute mine!
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  • pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
    edited November -1
    I am completely for the Death Penalty, but I have heard too many cases of innocent people on death row who were found innocent (one case is one too many).

    I say, if the evidence is overwhelming, give the perp one appeal, and then the chair. No need to keep them locked up for 20 years before putting them down. Manson is still locked up and I think we can all say he is due.

    Alex
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  • ClairClair Member Posts: 679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If they get the death penilty, then it should happen in a few months. Not drag it out for several years.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We are the only first world nation that invokes the death penalty, though it is used a lot in the middle east. Too many people on death row have been released when DNA proved they were innocent (at least of that particular crime). Witnesses are far too unreliable to bet anyones life on. Emotionally I agree rapists should be executed, but that is the one crime most likely to put an innocent man on death row.
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  • SP TigerSP Tiger Member Posts: 872 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I firmly believe in the death penalty as long as the person is guilty beyond a shadow of doubt. It would be terrible to execute someone who is innocent of the charges against him. However, prisons are full of convicts that are so obviously guilty that no amount of DNA evidence would help. They did it, they admitted it, and there's plenty of hard evidence to support the fact, and they were convicted, that's what I mean by obviously guilty. I get really sick and tired of these butchers claiming that they were abused when they were young and didn't know any better than to rape and murder a woman or molest and torture a child.
    Here in Mississippi, they executed a murderer last week for the 1987 slaying of a highway patrolman. The first execution since 1989, and it seems there will be more in the near future. A former high school classmate, friend, and fellow band member of mine is in prison sentenced to life without parole for the 1988 murder of his grandmother, he strangled her and burned the house down on her, and a couple of weeks later, killed a deputy (who had tried to help the troubled teen in the past) by grabbing the officers revolver and shooting him as the deputy was driving him back to the local county jail. Our jail was so crowded that they had to keep the guy in jail in another county. I guess I'm just trying to say that he deserves the needle also.

    Better to have and not need, than need and not have.
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  • homer4homer4 Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I see it as a State issue and not Federal, unless the defendants are being tried in Federal court.
    I'm for the death penalty.

    "...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"
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  • dhdh Member Posts: 127 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be sure by means of DNA.Organize 1 court to hear all death row appeals and then apply the needle if that's the outcome.A deterent,of course.No one ever committed another crime who was executed.I once knew a young man who had a beef with the local district attorney,he grabbed his son and tied him to a tree and chopped on him with an axe,then set him on fire.75 years.I'm in Texas.enough said.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    IFFFF.... you can destroy the soul of the executed I am in favor of it so that impure spirit does not possess another weak mind and perpetrate the same crime over and over and over......

    soooo we haved to put all of them in a single place and nuke the S**T outa of emmm .....! (Second death in tha sea of fire)

    The bad thing is we may run out of nukes .....

    JD

    Good...? , Bad...? Who cares ? as long I am the one with the the gun.....
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Lets take all of them (convicted beyond a doubt), put them in one place (secure) , give em all a weapon, and tell them the one that comes out alive will go free,

    They kill each other off till there is just one.

    Then ya tell that one that you lied, and put a bullet in his brain,

    Think of all the money you would save.

    "A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Great thing about the Legal System a 125 years ago, tried, convicted and executed all within a day and a half. Sometimes there wasn't even a trial.

    AlleninAlaska

    Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    We could do like the Chinese and make them do slave labor and the ones that protest get their organs harvested to help decent people who are waiting for hearts, livers, kidneys ect ect...lol...

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am all for the death penalty. Whether or not it a deters another from doing the same is not relevant as far as I am concerned. Have a good day, gang....and hang 'em high! Hehehehe I'm outta here for the day. :O)
    What's next?
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I'm in favor of the death penalty and I think all executions should be open to the public.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
    edited November -1
    Classic I like your idea. I think that would make a great reality based TV show as well. Hell, kinda like survivor...but with higher stakes.

    and as far as public executions....i'll volunteer my backyard for a hanging any day.
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  • snarlgardsnarlgard Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    to put teeth back in the justice system you would first have to impeach half of the judges now on the bench.
    or impress on them they are a judge and not a lawmaker
    just because they don't like the the verdict does not mean they can change what a jury has proscribed for the defendant.
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  • inspectorknuckleheadinspectorknucklehead Member Posts: 81 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I personally think that they should give the convicted one year to make their appeals. This should be enough time to re-examine all the evidence and for state of the art technology to do it's job. We have to make sure we have the right guy, right?
    After that one year, if they are found guilty a second time, they get one week to make their peace with God.
    After that one week, heat up "ol' sparky", have the guy hold a chicken (for lunch afterward) and fry his *. None of this humane methods of execution crap. He should go out kicking and screaming just like his victums did.

    John Colson

    "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one" Luke 2:36
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    Who cares whether or not the death penalty is a deterrent? At the very least, even if it isn't a deterrent to anyone, it frees prison space and guarantees that particular person won't be a repeat offender.
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