Bit of a touchy subject, but lets see what the majority really think!
2006-09-18 07:24:57 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I couldn't possibly be more against them than what I am. In my opinion, resorting to capital punishment reduces a society and a government down to the level of those it is trying to punish, Killing a person (which, capital punishment is, no matter how you dress it up) changes the people that do it and the people that take the decision to allow it. Nothing is gained by killing a murderer or any other criminal. The criminal acts that person committed will not be undone by killing him or her, and one more murder will be committed through capital punishment in the name of healing the pain caused by the crimes it is trying to punish (talk about an oxymoron!), and even condoned by the law. Let's not revert back to Hammurabi's code of law. we are close to 4,00 years ahead in time from it, we certainly can do better.
2006-09-18 08:11:52 · answer #1 · answered by p.g 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The thing is cruel and unsual punishment! How long is the wait before the execution? People think that the longer the wait the more cruel it becomes. Also if it is too soon after sentencing the jury hate the fresh blood on their hands and can vote not guilty so the person doesn't get put to death next week or week after.
Electricution sounds horrible, but the leathal injection where they get put to sleep first seems more of an easy way to do it. Some people want the criminal to suffer cause they suffered cause of what happened. E.g. the criminal murdered there family or raped someone so they want them to get hurt bad but if it is particularly, going to hurt the criminal it is deamed cruel and they do not suffer when they die.
Personaly I wouldn't want to be particularly responsible for someones fate but I think certain very sever crimes might require the criminal to be put out of their misery so they cannot do harm. A life in prison is no life at all. It just draws out the misery.
2006-09-18 09:42:53 · answer #2 · answered by hollycatherine99 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-18 07:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Warlock 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple, it's wrong to kill another human being.
There are worse punishments for the perpetrator of crimes than to be put to death. A life sentence however, should mean just that - the rest of the criminal's existance should be just that - an existance with no possibility of parole, no comforts, no luxuries simply all the time in the world to contemplate what they'd done.
This is why Harold Shipman and Fred West committed suicide in prison - it's the easy way out of a self-constructed psychological prison.
2006-09-18 07:32:02 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Glenn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For it! I'm sick of working my backside off so that my tax payers money goes to giving British criminals a comfy life in prison.In America prisoners have much harsher prison conditions.If the evidence is based on DNA or the criminal admits to his crime then there should be the death penalty.Everyone would benefit from this I'm talking about England mainly as the American legal system is so corrupt look at the West Memphis Three.If you haven't heard of this case look it up on the net they have there own site and I feel really bad for these boys and their families.
2006-09-18 08:18:11 · answer #5 · answered by MANC & PROUD 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All for it and it should be done across here in Britain, if you take a life you should be made to sacrifice yours, the usa is right and when you are jailed across there you are actually jailed and for an adequate sentence as well instead of in the UK life is 14 years, it is a joke and if Blair wants to do something useful bring in executions and the usa's jailing, society would be a better place i believe instead of people taking the p**s out of us.
2006-09-18 07:54:32 · answer #6 · answered by jaynie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Against.
2006-09-18 07:43:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Against it. I don't see how the state can condemn murder and then openly commit it. Like Ghandi said 'an eye for an eye makes the world blind' I think life in prison is a stronger punishment. Look at people like, Huntley, Brady, West and Shipman. They have all committed or tried to commit suicide. Why should they have what they want? They should live in suffering like the families of their victims.
2006-09-18 07:39:01 · answer #8 · answered by * * Princess * * 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Prison today is a joke. They get educations, TV, gyms, etc. Is it really punishment? If you executed folks, maybe they would think twice before they do something? Oh, lets not forget that the taxpayers have to pay for it too.
2006-09-18 09:16:43 · answer #9 · answered by wenonah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am for it. I really don't want my taxes paying for a murderer for 40 yrs when they can execute him/her in 1 and be done with it. They ever bring back public executions the world might not have so much crime. Put fear back into people
2006-09-18 07:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by ~*~frankie~*~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋