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The death penalty.

The finality of the penalty should be foremost in the minds of the prosecutors.
Too often, these guys will use faulty to imaginary evidence to get a conviction for political purposes.
That is and will be a problem.
But there's way too many people who just need killing!
Were we able to be certain of their guilt...
CA is agonizing right now about the use of lethal injection.
Their drugs are out of date.
Rope doesn't have a 'use by' date. :)
 
It's a farce. Years, possibly decades, in prison before execution. In the UK, it was generally carried out within a few weeks of passing sentence. And IIRC, more recently in China, in two separate cases involving school massacres, those found guilty were put to death within a month.
 
There are always going to be people who aren't exactly the poster-children for the anti-death-penalty movement, shall we say. That doesn't mean that the case against the death penalty is weakened.

Rolfe.
 
Death penalty costs more than life in prison.

We also frequently convict the wrong guy.

This is why I am against the death penalty.
 
commandlinegamer said:
It's a farce. Years, possibly decades, in prison before execution. In the UK, it was generally carried out within a few weeks of passing sentence. And IIRC, more recently in China, in two separate cases involving school massacres, those found guilty were put to death within a month.
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By the looks of this jerk if they wait say as long as 10 years to execute him he'll die of natural causes.
 
Cainkane1 said:
By the looks of this jerk if they wait say as long as 10 years to execute him he'll die of natural causes.
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Do you have a problem with that?

If he dies either way he would no longer be a threat to the rest of society.

Would you rather he be put to death and if so why?
 
Two Toed Sloth said:
At what point do you think murder by the state is justifiable?

Does it not strike you as ironic that the punishment for killing someone may be for someone else to kill you?

Is it only okay as a form of vengeance? Or do you think there are pragmatic justifications?
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There isn't any way to regress to just before the crime, and prevent it.
What's done is done.
Sociopaths need to be restrained.
The worst ones get the ultimate restraint.
Too many really bad ones do their time, and then do the crime again.
Restraint methods need work too.
 
Two Toed Sloth said:
At what point do you think murder by the state is justifiable?

Does it not strike you as ironic that the punishment for killing someone may be for someone else to kill you?

Is it only okay as a form of vengeance? Or do you think there are pragmatic justifications?
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Ahh, flashback to the 60's: Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing is wrong? :cool:

I continue to oppose the death penalty. In the US, I believe it is a minority opinion.
 
Emet said:
Ahh, flashback to the 60's: Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing is wrong? :cool:

I continue to oppose the death penalty. In the US, I believe it is a minority opinion.
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Depends on your state. Not all of them have the death penalty, which seems to indicate the majority in those places doesn't favor it.
 
Cainkane1 said:
I want his fellow inmates to do it. Going under the needle is too easy. I mean he burned children alive after they were sexually assaulted.
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Why? What do you think that would do, the victims are dead, what's done is done, he has displayed that he is unable to live in a civilised society and should be kept separate from it for the protection of others.

He should not be killed just to satisfy your cathartic needs.
 
Two Toed Sloth said:
Why? What do you think that would do, the victims are dead, what's done is done, he has displayed that he is unable to live in a civilised society and should be kept separate from it for the protection of others.

He should not be killed just to satisfy your cathartic needs.
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An eye for an eye I say. Not really but it wouldn't bother me if I heard he had been shived in the back.
 
I Ratant said:
The finality of the penalty should be foremost in the minds of the prosecutors.
Too often, these guys will use faulty to imaginary evidence to get a conviction for political purposes.
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And it's not limited to capital cases. See "Duke Lacrosse team".

I find the fundamental problem that in US a prosecutor is an elected position. It creates a conflict of interest -- between serving justice and winning re-election.
 
Two Toed Sloth said:
At what point do you think murder by the state is justifiable?

Does it not strike you as ironic that the punishment for killing someone may be for someone else to kill you?

Is it only okay as a form of vengeance? Or do you think there are pragmatic justifications?
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Murder under aggravating circumstances when the victim is a child and the victim was tortured.
 
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