should life mean life?

Question

SHOULD paedophiles, murderers, rapists, BE EXCECUTED

Answer 1

Murders ... yes .... if theres irrefutable evidence

Paedophiles & Rapists .... castration .... and prison till they die

Answer 2

This is a very controversial question and no simple answer is expected. I happen to be taking a criminal justice class and every time we get into this discussion it just becomes too heated. In my opinion I feel an eye for an eye....sorry why can someone take the privilege of taking someone else's life and go on living. Yes there are statistics that show some prisoners on death row have been innocent...but the # is very small. I guess that is why the criminal has to take up space for so long until the deed is done. Our justice system is a long process and prisons are overcrowded I say get it over with and give them the same as they gave the person they murdered!

Answer 3

Yes to the first question, no to the second. Offenders that commit offences that attract a sentence of Life Imprisonment, SHOULD (in my view) be given a sentence of life, but I don't believe they should be executed. For a start, the longer a guilty person rots in prison, knowing they'll never see the outside of it, the better. Secondly, what if you've got the wrong person? Many people have been released having been found not guilty after all. You'd have killed an innocent person. At least if they've been in prison, they and their families have a chance of re-building their lives. Life imprisonment, not execution.

Answer 4

Mike raises the defining issue in this argument when he says "if there’s irrefutable evidence" and that is the crux of it, if we could claim to NEVER make a mistake in judgement, then yes, I'd say let them hang, but since too many innocent people have been executed over the years, then the answer has to be a resounding NO, as there is no way to reverse the decision if the poor sod is dead, is there?

So I'll ask everyone who says "YES" How would you feel if it was you who the police had all this evidence against, and you were found guilty...How would you feel if you never had a chance to prove your innocence?

Answer 5

No -- the government should not execute ANYONE.
Where's the logic: we (the people and the government) say it's wrong to kill, but then we kill? How does that make any sense? If it's wrong to kill, then nobody should do it, especially not the people via their government who are supposed to provide an example of right vs. wrong.

There's no deterrent value in the death penalty -- if there were, there would be no more capital crimes, 'cause they already know they're facing the death penalty. Yet capital crimes just keep happening at the same rate as always, even in states where they execute you for pretty much anything (Texas). Since it doesn't stop bad crimes from happening, it's just revenge -- and I don't want my government in the revenge business, I want them in the justice business. It's much more of a punishment to get life in prison than to get the death sentence -- once they're dead they won't suffer any more. Lock 'em up forever, but don't kill.

Answer 6

I have2 solutions-

1) Castrate the males and surgical cut and sew the women who commit sexual crimes

or

2) Put them all on an island in the middle of the ocean and let them police themselves.

Realistically, they should be tortured and then executed.
Why sound my tax dollars have to continue to support these people? The get free education, free rent, free food, laundry , gym etc. for the price of freedom. It's a wonder more people to chose to commit crimes so they don't have to struggle.
I am tired of supporting these horrid people.

Guarantee you if it was truly an eye for an eye this would end a lot of the crap real quick!

Answer 7

Yes life should mean life, how can you call a sentence life knowing that the criminal will be out in x amount of years. The victim and the victims family have to spend the rest of their life's serving a life sentence. The laws to much for the criminal and not the victim.

Answer 8

I think it should mean life, if someone takes someones life away from them, they should stay in prison for the rest of there life's, not have it easy in prison like they do now days.
as for rapists if male they should have it chopped off, female sewed up. and as for then paedophiles, they should be EXECETED with out a DOUBT

Answer 9

The problem I have with this concept is what if the legal system makes a mistake? I think there was a case recently where a woman was falsely accusing men of rapes they had not committed and one guy served three years for something he didn't do because of her. Supposing he had been executed?

Answer 10

YES, these people do not respect life and do not deserve to live....but i think the punnishment should be to put them in a room with the relatives of the victim and the guards turn a blind eye..... that would save using expensive leathal injections or electricity bills....... an eye for an eye i believe

Answer 11

if truly convicted properly everything considered then yes.
thats speaking as a parent.
these perpetrators at a knowledgable guess had an unjust and abominable childhood which is sad and unfair and at which point should 'society' be held in account? we as humans cant always make judgements but as i believe in the creator, for those that dont then it must be often unbearabley painful.