& terror attacks
2006-12-18 06:45:02 · 17 answers · asked by miss smidgey 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
yes as long as there is substantial evidence beyond reasonable doubt they are guilty .
2006-12-18 06:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by teabag 1968 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A 'capital' crime, by definition, indicates that the death penalty is enforced. Does it really matter to you what form of death is administered? Hanging, lethal injection, electric chair,,the result is the same. Of course, I'm from a civilized country where the government doesn't kill people. We don't have a lot of problems with terrorists either. I wonder if there's a connection?
2006-12-18 15:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by bizou_bear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A capitol crime means it is punished by capitol punishment.
But anyway, the death penalty cheapens life, and carries no benefit for society.
More expensive than life imprisonment, no way out if it's a miscarriage of justice.
How do you judge a terror attack? Whether a freedon fighter is oin your side or not?
Should South Africa have hanged Nelson Mandela (since he was a terrorist)?
2006-12-18 15:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by DanRSN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I admit some people deserve capital punishment, but you'd have to be 100% sure you had right person or persons, There are people being released after years in prison from a miscarriage of justice. How can you bring someone back or ever compensate their family for being wrongly executed. Its is a grey area.
2006-12-18 14:59:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think hanging is fair justice for those who choose to kill innocent people. I lived in Washington state for 30 years and hanging is still used. If a prisoner refuses to choose between hanging and lethal injection, hanging automatically becomes his choice. It incenses me that hanging is considered cruel and unusual punishment. Does anyone every consider that the deaths of victims is cruel and unusual punishment for an innocent person who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Yes, yes, yes, please make hanging legal in all states!
2006-12-18 15:38:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Innocent people have been put to death and this outweighs any argument for capital punishment.
Just think about the people who have been released in the past couple of years because evidence had been withheld etc.
2006-12-18 19:20:00 · answer #6 · answered by st.abbs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason it was abolished in this country in the first place is because people have been executed, then found to be innocent.
I do believe in the death penalty but only if there is absolutely no possibility that the person could be innocent. Great in theory, difficult in practice.
2006-12-18 14:54:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Capital punishment.....from america we have learned:
it does not act as a deterrant
it costs more to sentence a prisoner to death than to life in prison
(comparing similar crimes) It is poor/black people are mostly sentenced to death,
from recent UK history we have learned that many prisoners who would probably have been sentenced to death, were innocent.
guildford 4, birmingham 6, bridgewater 4, stephan kisko (sp?)
you cant just come back a few years later and say "whoops, we made a mistake, sorry"
2006-12-18 14:55:40 · answer #8 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. There have been too many miscarriages of justice in the past. Thankfully it'll never come back.
2006-12-18 14:53:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes and we should hang all politicians who lie and decieve the nation so first up to the gallows would be blair followed by brown then prescott and thatcher and so on
2006-12-18 18:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by didymos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋