I think they was a thread about this already, but I looked and gave up after a while. I couldn't find it, so here's another (If there was another one that is, I might have been hallucinating).
Anyway, to the point...Capital Punishment:
*~Are you for or against it?
*~Why or Why not?
Consider the following:
~ What does "cruel and unusual punishment" mean?
~ How has the court system impacted capital punishment in America society over time?
~ How would you explain a position on the topic and convince others to support that position?
---All opinions and such are welcome.---
I am for capital punishment because a slap on the wrist is not good enough of course. If you got a hand cut off because of stealing in the US like in other countries, you would see a dramatic decrease in larceny.
You are correct, there was a similar thread.. maybe different title, I am for it to say the least..jail serves not the right purpose, the criminal mind needs to be rehabilitated, not the body!
Yay; on the issue of Capital Punishment.
I believe in an eye for an eye.
We're getting to a point where we need to make examples out of those that commit dispicable acts. Although, I believe that for certain crimes one should be allowed to live a painful, disfigured existence. A reminder (to those that ponder commiting such crimes), what happens when they are found.
I am for capital punishment. For the reason listed already by ladycat. There is a reason we have such a high crime rate in this country.
But on the other side of the coin, if someone is wrongfully convicted, how would you deal with innocent blood on your hands?
Keep them isolated for eternity. It will drive them mad and make them reconsider what theyre doing. lol. But then that leaves loony people in the country. Ill go for it and for whacking off their hands.
i'm for it. if you did something then you need to pay the price for what it is that you did. say someone shot someone.....i think that they should be shot in the same spot with the same gun....and so on and so forth
I am a firm believer in an eye for an eye. Capital punishment should be more widely used. You have to pay to play. The courts hav ebecome entirely too liberal when it comes to properly handing out punishment.
I am against capital Punishment because to kill someone who has killed is to come down to their level. Someone who has killed, to be killed is the way by the system is to get off easy. To sit and rot in a prison cell for life with no possibility of peroll. They have a long time to sit an reminise over what they have done. Also, when kill another human being you condemn your immortal soul. To be maurtored by society your soul becomes saved tis is not appropriate for a murder think about that. Also, so many times someone who recieves capitol punishment appeals they case many times and if they get a good enough scum bag lawyer get of on some kind of technicality and they become free to rape society again. let that sit on your mind for a while.
Capital Punishment: No
Simple law if you kill it you have got to eat it
thus ends murder and need for Cap Punishment
First of all, there is no such thing as capital punishment, it's a poor choice of words to replace death.
You don't bring back the dead and say didn't that hurt...
Now if you had a virus and it could be destroyed before it destroyed the body, wouldn't you?
Society is the body in question, and the ideal is that those in question are as such, questionable.
Is society willing to take the chance through rehabilitation, or does it rid itself of the infection before it can cause further harm?
Atleast it has become a standard in the death penalty to attempt humane practice, or atleast the humane interest is on the rise...
Let's also take into concideration the reason why they are sentenced in the first place, were the victims as lucky as to recieve a painless injection...
My opinion is that the dead are dead, and there will be no justice truly served or any measure efficient to replace what the family has lost.
But to the society to rid itself of an element that has shown it's incapacity to dwell within it.
I know there will be atleast one out there that will preach the whole intollerance of the different speach, ect.
But let me ask you this.
Would you want this individual to murder your family, your loved ones, your friends?
If so let them move in next door to you.
You can be comforterable knowing that our fine penal system had done such an excellent job in rehabilitating these individuals, and that no mistakes could be possibly made in the reprogramming of their minds...
Let's bring clockwork orange into the picture and cure the whole world with psychtropic drugs....
I hear it works wonders on child molesters and rapists...
No, i think i would rather put them out of our missery.
Why not permanent incarseration?
Well let's say they are innocent, a mistake was made...
You try spending the rest of your life in prison for something you didn't do...
And if you did do it, still what kind of life is that....
They don't call it inprisonment for no reason....
Damn, look at the words i misspelled.
I should have my keyboard executed for it!
Nah, i think i will just rehabilitate it!
well... this is how i look at it.... if people are against capital punishment then the criminals should be freed cuz i hate paying for there ass' just sitting there... but people dont want them free, they want the criminal to rought in the cell, but then again i think being locked in a cell would be cruel and unusual punishment... so need less to say... i think we should just kill the fags for fucking up....
I've always believed, an eye for an eye. It's as simple as that!
An eye for an eye and the world goes blind? Fine. Let justice be done, though the world perish.
Hmm ... let the victim's kin kill the criminal . It is their right .
YES for Capital Punishment, I firmly believe that if you do the crime do the time (or in most cases die)
I wish we could go back to public hangings and executions. This would cut down the over crowded prisons and would solve a lot of State funding issues.
What the hell, we have ppl that have been on death row for over 20 years........hello.... I say get them all in one room and clean house......
sorry got a little carried away there
Only in the case of the most depraved people, especially if they're a lost cause. Serial killers/rapists/paedophiles especially. If there's no way they can fuction in society without commiting atrocities, then I'd go for lethal injection, the same way you'd put down a rabid animal. I can't stand the thought of x many convicted killers just sitting around in prison waiting for parole.
im for it
an eye for an eye and all that.
i say they should bring it back definately