I think the death penalty is fair and I think that it should stay legal. I mean, if someone murders someone, shouldn't they have a consequence that is just as bad as their action?
Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth >>
(life for a life)
That's just my opinion though...

Do you think Death Penalty is fair?

Under certain circumstances, yes I do. When a heavy crime is commited, I do think that teh death penalty should be an option.

Do you think it should be legal ?

Legal to a degree that not every person who commits a crime would get it, but for those that have murdered so many and such, I think they should be up for it.

Do you agree with it ?

Again, under a circumstance where it fits, an eye for an eye some would say. I mean, if a person kills one or more individuals, planned it out, and killed innocent lives, why should they get the ability to live out there life, though it may be horrible in prison, when others didn't get a chance to?

Or would you prefer the criminal to spend the rest of his/her days in prison ? Why ?

Eh..a lot of people get out with parol, just doesn't make me feel safe at times really.

Please don't kill me for me weird views X___x

Originally Posted by Moon

Do you think Death Penalty is fair? Do you think it should be legal ? Do you agree with it ? Or would you prefer the criminal to spend the rest of his/her days in prison ? Why ?


Me: I think that a criminal that could get the death penalty, should instead spend the rest of his life on prison. Here they would suffer more, and this is, what most of them, deserve. I see death penalty as the easy way out.

I think it's fair because some people do deserve to die I can see where you think it's the easy way out, but honestly it's an easy way out of an easy way, I mean the scum of the earth get off easy by getting food and shelter from the state not to mention TV and porn and many inmates you get life have internet access as well (don't get me wrong I'm not saying jail is nice but I still believe it's better than most of them deserve) but the annual cost to the state of inmates is huge and also considering how long it takes before a criminal is executed it might as well be life, alot of inmates die on death row and I do believe it should be legal and to "humane" standards, and of course not every crime gets the death penalty I mean taking into account age moral culpability state of mind and the specifics of each case (which are taken into consideration before anyone is sentenced to death) I know people say an eye for an eye and the world is blind (or something like that) but I'd rather be blind than dead xD



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Hmmmm.

I'll go with the most logical idea.

I think that the death penalt yis is fair to people who actually deserve it, but then again, i'd rather them sit in jail for their whole lives thinking about what they've done and the thought they they're bad people.

So yes, the death penalty is fair, and it should remain legal, but i'd rather have the person who killed someone else rot in jail their whole lives, because then they'd have their whole lives to think about things and go crazy.

Death is just the easy way out and it wouldn't be fair to other people really.

I agree with the death penalty. I think that if someone murdered someone, and it wasn't for self-defence or accidental of course, that they should have a seat in teh electric chair. I know it is seen as cruel and inhumaine, but isn't killing someone cruel and inhumaine too? Eithre that or we could change the death penalty alittle, and make it where they are killed the same way htey murdered the person. Like, if they strangled teh person to death, then the murderer shoudl therefore be strangled to death, so they will know how it feels. Or if they were shot to death (like one of my friends were last year) the murderer should go up infront of the firing range. Simple as that. Its like teh eye for an eye thing, if you murder someone the penalty should be death. And the people on death row shouldn't be sitting there for years like they are now, they should be given days. >.>

I disagree with the death penalty.
Its original purpose has failed. The death penalty was created as a deterrent for crime. So far, this theory has been proven wrong. Statistics show that states with the death penalty have just as much crime as those without, if not more. Furthermore, there have been an increasing number of wrongly convicted criminals leading to more and more innocent deaths, found out too late to be reversed.
Life in prison would be a much more brutal punishment in which guiltiness is gnawing you inside out.

Oh, and I'd like to point out that a lot of you for the death penalty make the money argument that the government doesn't have enough money to keep them there.
But in actuality, it costs more to send the person to death row then it does to keep them in prison.

I would like guilty people to die... XD''

We spend a lot of the people's money on jails.
They have practically the sweet life in there.
Food and all. ( Not saying actually being there is great... but you know what I mean. )

But see the only problem is...
a lot of innocent people also go to jail.
So it's sad if they die too don't you think?

I think that the death penalty is wrong. Even if some one is a serial killer or rapist they don't deserve to die. All I think they should do is not allow these sorts of prisoners the comforts that the other prisoners have. They shouldn't be able to watch TV or read or have the other "luxuries" that the other prisoners have. In many cases prison life is a lot better than the life that the prisoners had beforehand, and that's wrong. If prison was shitty and it smelled bad and the conditions were absolutely rotten, I think that some people would change their mind about doing things bad.

And for the record, it costs much more to lethally inject people than it is to just keep them in jail. With the death penalty the felon has to go through a bunch of trials that they wouldn't have to go through if they were just sentenced to life.

Also, people on death row rarely get killed by the state. Most of the people on death row die before their death date ever comes.

But yeah. The death penalty is wrong. The end.

im undecided on this still.

death pentality pro: more room in jails for people who should be there.
getting just desserts, a life for a life.
what if the person wasnt guilty?

death penailty con: i also see it as te easy way out. i think that if someone could do something so horrible to merit even the thought of the death penality they should have to suffer in agony for the rest of their lives for what they did not only to the person that they were convicted for but also for what they did to that persons family

life in prison pro: the person is going to live a long drawn out monotonous life.
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life in prison con: more time to get off their conviction for 'good behavior'

i guess i do perfer the death penality but only if its known 100% no doubt about it that what they were convicted of is what they did. and let them live more of eternity in hell then here on earth. we dont need them crowding up our jails. D:<

Originally Posted by DeniedUltraSex

I would like guilty people to die... XD''

We spend a lot of the people's money on jails.
They have practically the sweet life in there.
Food and all. ( Not saying actually being there is great... but you know what I mean. )

But see the only problem is...
a lot of innocent people also go to jail.
So it's sad if they die too don't you think?

dont they also have to do random manual labor things and get paid for it?
kinda like the military...
i dont know if thats true but i heard it somewhere. XP

I'm not sure. D:
I guess it would be good to put away bad guys, even kill them,
but honestly,
what about the innocent?
I'd feel sorry for them.
I mean people in prisons have got it pretty good, (you know what I mean)
and our taxes pay for jails...

It costs more taxpayer money to let a criminal rot in a cell. Also, it's rare, but criminals can escape from jail.


Sure, there's the possibilty that the person didn't do it, but if they did? I don't want to spend money on keeping them alive, or have the risk that they might escape and commit the same crimes again.


And in the US, we don't have the money to keep these people in jail right now. It's just easier to give them the death penalty and move on.

Originally Posted by Spicy Chicken Wings

It costs more taxpayer money to let a criminal rot in a cell. Also, it's rare, but criminals can escape from jail.


Sure, there's the possibilty that the person didn't do it, but if they did? I don't want to spend money on keeping them alive, or have the risk that they might escape and commit the same crimes again.


And in the US, we don't have the money to keep these people in jail right now. It's just easier to give them the death penalty and move on.

It costs more to kill them off. It really does. And isn't killing them just as bad as what they did?

Killing a killer is not justice.

Originally Posted by they_call_me_kitten

It costs more to kill them off. It really does. And isn't killing them just as bad as what they did?

Killing a killer is not justice.

Exactly, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I think kiling a killer is justice. Hell, I'd like to kill them for every person they killed but that's impossible.



I highly doubt it costs more for a hanging then letting them live off 30+ years of life in a prision cell. It really doesn't cost much to hang, but it sure costs money to feed and clothes these people. I've heard when you're in jail for life, you get things pretty easy. You can read, write, draw, talk to people.

It's be cruel and unusual to just have them locked in a room with nothing for 30+ years, but if we can't have the death penalty, that's what we should get.


Besides, I'd rather NOT let a deadly criminal go on living with my tax money. I don't want to pay to keep him alive.

It costs more for a killer to be on death row because they are kept in single cells for most or all of their incarceration (and it is less cost efficient to have one prisoner in a cell than the normal two), they are given better medical treatement because they have to be healthy when they are killed, so they get weekly medical check-ups for the entire time they are incarcerated. They have to be escorted to and from the mess hall, the yard or work duty (if they are allowed), so you need more guards on duty to deal with that.

It's only more expensive to keep a killer on death row because of all the extra steps you have to take with them--and then they end up being there for at least five years due to appeals. It's a ridiculous system.

Originally Posted by Spicy Chicken Wings

I highly doubt it costs more for a hanging then letting them live off 30+ years of life in a prision cell. It really doesn't cost much to hang, but it sure costs money to feed and clothes these people. I've heard when you're in jail for life, you get things pretty easy. You can read, write, draw, talk to people.

Erm... I don't think they do hangings here XD

And yes, it costs more to execute them.

Pretty easy life huh? Well that sure is an interesting way to put it.

stilettolover, I was unaware they did that much. Still, I don't think they should rot in a cell if they killed 30+ people.

eliechan, they hung Sadam. I'm refering to my country, the US. We kill in a lot of ways. My apologies if you're from the US yourself and I made you look like an idiot.


If someone was really horrible, I don't think they should be left in a cell with books and things of the like. If a person was really horrible, they should be locked in a cell with no windows and nothing to do. Let them rot.

Actually, the US doesn't hang. In some cases they use lethal injections, others they still use the electric chair.

Saddam was NOT tried by the US. He was hung. He was tried by some international council.

I think it really depends on the crime.
If it's something so horrific, and they obviously don't care that they did it, they should just get the death penalty, because honestly what's the point in feeding them and giving them a roof over their heads with our tax money if they're just there enjoying the fact that they caused others pain.
As for others, I'd say leave them there to rot in guilt and let the pain fester.

I also think strongly about other things with the jailing system, though.
I highly believe they should have to work for their food, instead of having our tax money going toward it. I think it's bullshit that our money is used to feed and clothe people who've committed such horrible crimes.

• I'd rather take the death penalty.
  I know how it is in prison.
  
  As to this, someone getting the death penalty should get life in prison so they know how it feels to do whatever they did..

Originally Posted by Mike

• I'd rather take the death penalty.
  I know how it is in prison.
  
  As to this, someone getting the death penalty should get life in prison so they know how it feels to do whatever they did..

Yeah, but sometimes they just don't care.
There are a lot of insane people out there, and they won't have any regrets for their actions, and probably wouldn't care that they're in prison either.

I think the death penalty should be for serial killers, and serial killers only.. Like Robert Pickton, after he's killed 49 women, why shouldn't he get killed himself? (Okay, I'm starting to sound mean now.) But I think if they've really killed so many people, they should have the death penalty. It's not that bad nowadays, lethal injection is more humane then getting your head chopped off by a gigantic, evil blade.

But that's just me.

The death penalty should be used in some cases. Others we should lock them up but not make jail so comfortable. Thou I think for some murderers we should give them to the families that they have torn apart and let them deal with it. While I'm on this train of thought I think that we should let child molesters into the public with all the information on them, like where they live, where they work, what the look like Etc. etc. Let the people deal with them, because the most likely thing that will happen is that their life will be miserable because god knows that it is alright to kill someone but not rape a child in the weird code that all felons have.

I am personally really against the death penalty. Part of it is my religion and that the 10 commandments say, "Though shalt not kill" and i view the death penalty as killing or murdering someone. I also see it as a "do as i say, not as i do" teaching method.

Secondly, it's not really always a deterrent. Just think about it and look at the murders that have happened (i'm not talking about huge serial killer headlines, which is like 1 out of 100 murders). Most of the people that murder were in a crime of passion and "wow, death penalty!" doesn't cross through their minds. People don't refrain from killing each other because of the law, they refrain from killing each other because most people hold the value that it's morally wrong!

Originally Posted by Kelly

I think the death penalty should be for serial killers, and serial killers only.. Like Robert Pickton, after he's killed 49 women, why shouldn't he get killed himself? (Okay, I'm starting to sound mean now.) But I think if they've really killed so many people, they should have the death penalty. It's not that bad nowadays, lethal injection is more humane then getting your head chopped off by a gigantic, evil blade.

But that's just me.

you would have to set a limit on it, though. It'd be so hard to put into law though, and prosecutors could use it as a mega advantage. Say a man has epilepsy that is undiagnosed and he runs into a train that is derailed and kills 37 people...should he be put to death? I think it's an either or thing. use it for 1st degree murder or not. There shouldn't be special cases