Death Penalty
 

So the debates section seems pretty dead.

I really could argue for both sides on this one.

Anybody for or against it?

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I'm all for it, as long as the crime warrants it, and overwhelming evidence is used to convict the guy. We have way to many people locked up for crimes they didn't do, that have only recently been acquitted due to DNA evidence. Taking a persons life via death penalty is serious business, and I think cases that end in death convictions should be re-investigated by some 3rd party law enforcement agency just prior to the sentence being carried out, instead of the "review" system currently in place that just double checks the old case info and doesn't even attempt to bring any new evidence the table.

As for whether or not it's morally objectionable to kill a guy, I'd have to go with not. I'm all for the Hammurabi code of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life. We need more of that, instead of putting some mass murdering bastard behind bars for life, sponging off tax payer dollars. But that's just me. Mmm, dinnertime. I'll write more later.

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It depends on each individual case but I am for the death penalty, why should the tax payer pay for a child rapist to be in jail for the rest of his life if u ask me that seems pretty good for me three meals a day a roof over my head and if he don't wanna be killed just needs to get him self in to solitary they also have access to literature and in some cases even get a tv however there has to be 100% proof he or she did it also if he has absaloutley no remorse but if they mend there ways then a triple life sentence is enough
By the way typing from my iPhone may be mistakes

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I'll go ahead and tell you I'm completely for it, but for the sake of the argument. :p


So who decides if the crime warrants it? The same people who decide if he's guilty? We've sent innocents to jail before. You can't just give somebody Life when you take it.

Showing that our system is flawed, and with the death penalty in place, we still have the possibility of killing an innocent man.

I couldn't agree more.

I don't really get what you mean by third party. Like a federal group? Or an outside group that we grant the authority?

That's the point of an appeal. If you have a halfway decent lawyer then there isn't any reason for no new evidence to be brought up. It still may not outweigh the evidence stacked against him though.

Well if it's not morally correct to kill a guy, then why is ok for our government to do so?

So you prefer to kill him and let him take the easy way out? It would be way more satisfying to have that dude rotting in a jail cell for the rest of his life, miserable until the day he dies. Why should money play a role in this at all? Can a persons life be bought and payed for? No. That would be putting money>life. Which do you think is more important?




If you think jail is just 3 hots and a cot you haven't ever been. It's no party. It's fucked up and it sucks, It's a horrible miserable way to live, and to have someone know they'll never see the outside of those walls, and have them rot away day by day til the life literally leaves them, or they get shanked. Obviously anal raping occurs. Do you really think that laying somebody to rest, and giving them the easy way out is punishment enough? I've said before too, there isn't always 100% guilty people based off of evidence. Does that mean we should only send SOME murderers or rapists to death?

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Devils advocate eh? OK, I'll play along.


That's should be obvious. If the crime involves the willful and deliberate taking of life, then that deserves the death penalty. Murder in general warrants this, except in certain cases where it was caused through negligence.

There's always that possibility, an in truth there's no way to be 100% sure of a persons guilt. However their are ways of minimizing the risk. SEE BELOW.



Correct. Most innocent people that get convicted, are due to shitty investigations by local or state police. While it isn't as likely to happen today, their are a multitude of cases in the past where a crime was "pinned on the black guy". Racist local cops exist. Or at least shitty deadbeat cops exist. Should a murder case that might involve the death sentence really be put in the hands of some small town sheriff department, that might not have the resources to investigate properly, and has the potential risk to bring local politics into the situation. After all, the sheriff wants to be reelected for his next term, and convicting a popular guy in town or maybe his own supporter doesn't help him. It far better to have somebody that isn't biased in the case and has nothing to gain or lose, to do the investigation.

The appeal process doesn't actively seek to find new evidence. Only way that's going to happen is if you pay a private investigator to look into it for you, and that's takes money. If you're some poor dude locked up in jail, you have no money and no way of making any. Is it really fair that someone who has that money can afford to investigate, while the poor guy can't. Everybody deserves equal rights under the law. Whether or not you can afford to prove your innocence shouldn't be a matter of economic prosperity, but a right that's granted to you. That's means that law enforcement should actively reopen the cases of death row inmates as a public service to those inmates for the sake of justice.

The punishment must fit the crime. It's just that simple. Executions not only punish that individual people, but help prevent future crimes. Knowing that your state has no problems killing you, should have a significant effect on your choice to kill someone. So if one death can prevent future deaths, I see that as morally acceptable.
There's nothing easy about death. Most people value their own lives. I know I'll fight tooth and nail to stay alive. So the notion that death is an easy way out is absolutely absurd.

As for money playing a role in it, yeah it does. On average it's cost over $25,000 a year to house an inmate, and their are over 3,200 people on death row. Do the math. That's over 80 million dollars that could be spent on more important things......like crime prevention programs.

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Yeah, why not.

So who decides if your negligence was extreme enough to warrant death? That particular judge or jury you end up with?

Not without the death penalty.

So you know that innocent people are found guilty, and your ok with possibly murdering an innocent man? Especially if a good man died because of a deadbeat cop.


Sorry, If I was about to be put to death, that sheriff could kiss my ass, lawyers are your friend in any legal situation.

Right, because the sheriff would like to risk almost everything for the vote of this one potential murderer, when he could catch the supposed criminal, and gain support from the entire area. If local politics are brought in, it increases the chance of sending and innocent man to death, and letting a guilty man walk.

Huh? Considering the appeal is a matter of life and death, the defendant and the lawyer are doing everything they can.


Isn't that what you're paying the multitude of lawyers for? I agree it's not right. Money is power now-a-days. Our legal system doesn't just work off of justice and peoples rights. Death row inmates have plenty opportunity to reopen them themselves.

Because it's totally ok and non-hypocritical for the government to tell you it's not ok to kill, by killing you.

Executions are barbaric, and serve no real purpose todays world. Vengeance..


Nobody in the moment of killing somebody is thinking "shit I could go to jail for this, maybe I should rethink" Instead it's more, "I'm going to fucking kill you!"

Tell me how getting killed by your government is going to prevent future death. That's what laws are for, hell that's what religion is for. We've already got plenty of shit to scare people, it still won't stop happening, so why murder somebody who could be more miserable wasting away in a jail, and let them(imo since I'm Atheist) just get game over, nothing, no guilt no conscience, nothing not black, nothing. That seems a lot easier than living the rest of your days, minutes, seconds, in a shitty ass jail.


Unless you strongly believe they will end up in hell, and burn for eternity, there is nothing absurd about it.

On average, it cost an additional $90,000 per inmate sentenced to death. Go ahead and do your $90,000 multiplied by 3,200. Guess which number is bigger. Read this article. It actually cost more to kill somebody than it does to house them in a cage.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...=16v7n47orkyp7


The article I posted above lays it out pretty clear, if you go to it. It's so much more expensive for the state to kill someone rather than to imprison them for life because death penalty trials are lengthy, drawn out, and include great detail, death row prisoners have to be housed in a complete different area than other prisoners, and most men or women on death row file many appeals because it is a matter of life and death.

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I think it's so interesting. I'm kinda interested... maybe I'll re-read twilight.

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^OMG, bots have advanced to the level of 12 year old girls!

P.S. On topic: I'm fine with the death penalty when the alternative is keeping them in prison for the extent of their lives. However theoretically there are better solutions, like shipping em all to an island and just leaving them there, that could be punishment for other sever crimes (ex. mass rapist). I see that solution functioning best if it was an international prison.

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I like your island idea.

Care to elaborate?

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Alot of you guys are speaking on a subject with out doing any research. Im pretty sure that the death penalty is more expensive than a life sentence.

Im against the death penalty, the legal system isnt full proof, a lawyers job is to defend a guilty man knowing of his guilt, an innocent man can be convicted of a crime he did not commit, judges and juries can be bribed. I do not believe this legal system should have the right or is properly equipped to make the judgement to take a mans life, nor do I believe any man has the right to take another mans life.

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I deont believe anyone has the right to take away anothers life but some should indeed be put to death.. not sure how thats going to happen tho as seemingly all of the companies that produce the drug required for lethal injection wont sell it for that purpose.

Maybe we could try a form of mental imprisonment like they did in this one episode of the outer limits. the sentence would all be in a persons mind and if they truly repented then they would be taken from under the "genjutsu" for lack of a better term.

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@AnimeFan Check out the link I posted, it's pretty informative.

Also, say I was being attacked. Then would I have the right to take my attackers life? The current legal system thinks so(depending).