a life for a life ?

Question

if somebody commits murder do you think it should be a life for a life ?

Answer 1

If someone is willing to end the life of another person then they should be ready for someone to end their life.

there are enough people on this planet to afford to end the life of a few that honestly aren't worthy of walking on it.

Answer 2

Yes I absolutely agree with that. Itd unfortunate that with so many loop holes in the juiditial system, not everyone who commits murder will be sent either to the gas chamber or have the lethal injection.

Personally I think capital punishment should be brought back in, why is it that in Saudia Arabia that they cut off fingers if you steel? Perhaps if they did that over here the messag would be clearer. If a person murders another in cold blood, that person should be killed in the same way.

Answer 3

It depends. On what account the life is snuffed out? is it under intoxication, greed, rape, family feud, elimanation of evidence, bribery the list goes on. But one wise man has said. Murder is a biggest crime even biggest is not padoning the murderer.

So what do you learn here is that you straight away do not come to conclusion that biggest crime be given biggest punishment.

What one should look in to after conviction is that are there any chances of reform, repentance by the murderer and are all the possible methods to pardon exhausted.

If a person goes beyond all this then he has no reason to live and can be sniffed out.

Answer 4

Used to believe so, years ago. I argued that a life is irreplaceable, ultimately priceless. If you take a life, you negate your right to yours. Something priceless for something priceless.

Problem; during a debate was asked if I believed if any institution created by man was perfect. Answer; no....
Therefore, any justice system will make mistakes. Innocent people will be killed and have been killed by the state. So whose life do you take in compensation for that innocent person? The cop who arrested him? The prosecutor who tried him? The jury who convicted him? Or the judge who sentenced him?

I can protect society by locking up a killer for the rest of his life. If a mistake has been made in conviction, it may not be fully recompensed, but at least something can be done about it.

NOTHING will ever bring the innocent back; victim or accused.

Peace

Answer 5

Of course, in the case of an unmitigated murder.
Why should society have to pay the cost of maintaining these people in prison?
The concept of an insanity defence should also cease as again the murderer will have to be locked up at societies expense.

However, I do believe that executions should be humane as previously carried out in the UK rather than the barbaric US methods.

Lawyers are the main opponents of the death penalty as a prisoner serving a life sentence has the potential to generate hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of fees, all funded by taxpayers.

Answer 6

There are two sides to this question. Yes, a life for a life is good. Yes, make them suffer for the rest of their lifes. But we don't do either. We don't execute tem, we put them into surroundings where they are fed, get dental treatment, complain if the telly doesn't work, kept warm, entertained, and then let out to do it again. All at our expense. Sorry, bring back capital and corporal punishment. What we have at the present can hardy be described as a deterrent.

Answer 7

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. you get my drift. If there were harsher punishments for crimes there would,nt be overcrowded prisons. In relation to the current murders in the ipswich area if they catch whos doing this he,s probably going to get life imprisonment (however long that is) and looked after like a baby at taxpayers expence.

Answer 8

You will all get sick of hearing this from me, but the death penalty does not work!
Someone brought up Saudi Arabia and the cutting off of hands for stealing...
Well once again I will tell you that in Saudi Arabia they execute people every Friday at the noon prayer time.
You are caught on Monday ( for example), tied on Tuesday and executed in public on Friday.
So check out the execution figure for this year alone???
And they are from a country that is primarily desert, not populated!
Does having the death penalty as a certainty work ?
Hell no!!!
I do agree that sentencing in the UK is almost at the point of stupidity and something needs to be done in order to retain a real deterrent force, but the death penalty is not it.

Answer 9

I don't think it's ever as back and white as that. Maybe yes if someone goes out with the intent to kill someone else (but in some cases it would be hard to prove the intent).

Maybe no in the case of accidents. What if I'm driving home today and someone walks out in front of my car and I kill them? Would that mean that I should die too, for an accident that I had no control over?

The only section of society I truely believe should be taken out of the gene pool are proven peodophiles, sex trafickers and rapists.

Answer 10

Yes i agree a life for a life! Sent to prison joke out in 15 years

Answer 11

sure, only because we have so many people in prisions, and because it might stop other people from trying to murder. Do you think if we started using the death penelty for other crimes such as rape that the crime rate would go down?

this helps contribute to survival of the fittest. If you are dumb enough to murder someone, you should be taken out too.