who thinks we should do away with the death penilty *i know i cant spell*?

Question

i wanna know your thoughts

my personal thing is i think you should get the same thing as what your did to that other person.. if that makes sence....

Answer 1

Not me.I say kill 'em all.

Answer 2

Penalty. It is a punishment for doing something wrong. When you punish somebody (whether it is death penalty or other offence) it is basically for three reasons :

1. To make a person pay for his crime.
2. To set an example to the other people not to repeat the same mistake.
3. To make the criminal correct himself and become a responsible person.

Now, it is very dificult to generalize and say that all death penalty should be done away with. It is not wise to make a standard remark about all death penalties. In some cases, where one person behaves ina very in-human way, death penalty is required.

It is more situational and subjective. For example in certain place, a particular offence might be considered more serious than some other type of ofence. Hence, the subjectivity element has to be lookied into. I would sum up by saying that the option must be kept open. In some cases, it should be awarded, in some cases, it can be overlooked.

Answer 3

If we say "an eye for an eye" does the person whose eye got put out get his or her eye back? And who takes the eye of the criminal? Does the one who cuts someone's eye out not have to have his eye cut out and so on and on until there are no eyes left in the world? Revenge doesn't solve anything. There are two strong arguments in favor of the death penalty. One is that the threat of being put to death might deter someone from committing murder. When we consider actually executing someone, the deterrence ship has already sailed. The other strong argument is that once someone has killed, they might kill again and we can't trust having them living among us anymore. I'd have to go along with that. Life in prison where they have to work and the products of their work goes to repay the family of the victim. The trouble with the death penalty is two major things. What if we convict an innocent person? And people only want the death penalty for the sake of revenge. Desire for revenge is an understandable human weakness, but not something for the government to support. My brother was murdered 15 years ago and his killer was never caught, but he probably came to a bad end anyway. I add this personal comment so you don't think I'm some bleeding heart whose life has never been touched by violent crime. The death penalty really doesn't do much good.
Spelling courtesy of public school and Yahoo.

Answer 4

No, though my feelings have flip flopped over this hot issue. In Canada we have a animal being called Clifford Olsen, he murdered horribly several children. To get a conviction his wife was paid 100.000 dollars! He will never leave prison but neither will he be harmed or lacking in comforts. He has been in prison in solitary watching his TV and eating well for over 20 years.
The death penalty would have been just in this case. How the families bare it I do not know. Then there was that lady in Texas when Bush was Governor who should not have been put to death she was making life easier for the warden by living. See I would not be one to make any decisions on this. Maybe the victims families should vote. On your spelling just try the spell check just above the box you type in. I hit the wrong keys all the time and I can spell. Hope that helps take care ~A~

Answer 5

arghhh....toughie

ok i kind of like the fact that a "danger" get's eliminated from society when the death penalty is in effect but at the same time

it feels kind of wrong to do it and accept it. I mean your pretty much letting another person do the killing for you and that if i am not mistaken is a form of murder according to law books and many religions too....and wouldn't that make someone a serial killer if they did it many times also??

and it is kind of wrong letting another person kill the prisoner when you yourself would not commit the act. C'mon would you really want to be the person standing at the person's side injecting the poision, strapping them in, pulling the leve, shooting the trigger, and if that prisoner sentenced to death was a child, accused of a heinous crime with some proof to back it up, but also a lot of doubt and unanwered questions supporting the verdict as well....Would you want to be the one watching their life slip away would you want to be the one responsible.....even if it is uncertain if they are truly guilty or not?


plus there are worse things you can do to a prisoner than allowing them to die, sometimes letting them live can be a real punishment

Answer 6

I will be all for the death penalty when it is equally applied and defendants have equal representation. Fat cat big shot lawyers for people who can afford them doesn't make for a just system.

A survey of people on death row is the best way to determine if all accused murders are equally treated, or are the rich, white and/or famous accused just quite more equal than the others?

The same goes for convicted murders, look into the stats and see who gets death. So, I'll opt out of the death penalty until it's an equal opportunity situation.

Answer 7

Try looking to your right of your monitor and clicking on the check spelling, that's the reason it's there.
To answer your question..2 wrongs don't make a right. We are not God. We don't have the right to say whether or not someone should live or die.
Regardless of what that person has done. The system is so corrupt that there are innocent people being put to death for crimes they didn't commit.

Answer 8

Maybe our country needs to get a lot more strict with criminals. Like if a person gets caught stealing, they lose a finger by it being chopped off with a butcher knife. The next time they get caught..two more fingers...and so on. Graphic, I know...but if they knew they'd be facing something so horrible, I think many more criminals would stop and think before committing crimes. If someone murders a person and it's a known and proven fact that this person did the crime...then that person should suffer the exact same death, maybe. If we were more strict, we would have much less crime and deaths. What's wrong with this crazy country ? Do we like for this nonsense to keep going on ???

Answer 9

I believe death penalty is the softest way of punishment. Living in prison for life should be quite worst.

Besides, it does not help to give back life to anybody.

What I would propose is to prepare an scale of punishment that includes the payment with organ donation, for instance

- rapist : penis donor/ vagina sealing
- half passional murderer:kidney donor if the other kidney works fine
- corrupted representative from the citizens: immediate donation of all the funds, including the savings account from the childhood and eventually partial brain donation
- murderer of one person - simple - kidney wheather they have one left or not.
- multiple murderers, pedofils and other scum: removing from as many organs as victims they caused. For the invalidated victims, one cornea per person is would be fine for starting.
-violent husband/wife/parents/kids/priests/etc: minimum frontal lobotomy - through the nose -

What do you think, guys???
Sure, this is an idea that can for sure be improved with the cooperation of all the readers.

Naturally, throwing away potential food is a crime considering the hunger in the world, so the remaining from the massive killers must be converted in , let's say....dog's food.

Answer 10

An eye for an eye is very barbaric. The death penalty is actually a release for some prisoners. I think it would be worse knowing that the rest of my life I was going to be stuck in a prison with no chance of getting out. not getting to see my wife or kids (if I had them) or my family grow up and change. I think that is the worst punishment of all. Do that, don't kill.

Answer 11

I see that most of you people here are for the death penalty.
Let me bring a simple question to your attention.
WHAT IF THE PERSON (MURDERER) WAS A CLOSE RELATIVE OF YOURS OR EVEN WORSE THE PERSON YOU CARED MOST FOR IN YOUR LIVES?(son,daughter,mom or dad,wife or husband)
Would you still then say KILL THEM or maybe you would be having second thoughts?
Cause if you would, then all you are claiming right now is bul......
Again you might respond to my argument with the question, what would I believe if the victim was someone close to me?
Well I dont know either but what I am trying to make you all see is that kill or not kill is a big issue up for discussion and not to be taking lightly with a simple yes or no.
Best regards...