If someone gets caught that killed someone, do you think that they should be killed the same way? Like a mother that drowns her baby, should she be drowned? Or if someone burned someone to death, should they have to be burned to death????
2006-07-19 07:17:21 · 12 answers · asked by Jennifer Lindeman 2 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
In most cases.
2006-07-19 16:05:08 · answer #1 · answered by CottonPatch 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It will never happen as long as cruel and unusual punishment is illegal. I don't think that's specifically what they (Greeks/Romans) had in mind with that rule. The theory was the same, death for death, loss of hand for loss of hand, I just don't think they meant that the exact methods had to mirror each other. What if you were drunk and ran over someone? You would be sentenced to death because you caused it with your negligence (drinking) but would we then have someone get loaded then drive you over? Would the second driver really need to be drunk to carry out the sentence? I all for capital punishment but to me the reason behind it is more to keep the public safe than to actually make the criminal suffer.
2006-07-19 07:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by hotsauceg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in capital punishment but murderers should not get out of prison to repeat their crime. The concept of an "Eye for an eye" was developed to prevent people from handing out more punishment than was deserved. An example, you shouldn't be stoned for stealing bread.
2006-07-19 07:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by karen wonderful 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe someone else said it best: "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, will leave us all blind and toothless"
Don't get me wrong however, punishment does need to fit the crime and be stern enough to disaude people from committing crime. But restraint needs to be used, and the punishment needs to fit, not only the crime, but also the situation.
2006-07-19 07:21:19 · answer #4 · answered by John J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. the eye for an eye thing was for people that lived
with out law and order.
2006-07-19 07:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anzel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes its appropriate, and sometimes its not. A flexible approach to proplem solving is always more effective than a plan set in stone.
2006-07-19 08:05:02 · answer #6 · answered by jack f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
2006-07-19 07:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carma always comes back
2006-07-19 07:21:35 · answer #8 · answered by teresa l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't that make you just as bad as the other person?
2006-07-19 07:20:32 · answer #9 · answered by Velociraptor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i think that is just the way it should be
2006-07-19 09:21:20 · answer #10 · answered by rjm_333 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋