Do people in favour of capital punishment have a duty to watch Saddam Hussein's execution?

Question

If anyone is in favour of capital punishment shouldn't they witness the actual death of a convicted person in order that they can truly see the whole process and truly get to know what is involved. So may people, myself included, are in favour of the death penalty for heinous crimes but are ignorant as to how it affects everyone.

Answer 1

Good question .... and very good point.
I used to be very much in favor of the death penalty .... but wouldn't it be a far greater punishment if Saddam had to spend the rest of his life isolated in a cell?

Answer 2

Do people who favor traffic fines have to watch the court house teller when the checks are mailed in? We have a system of justice that administers legal punishments for violations and crimes. There are 620 prisoners on California's death row. The sentences that are legal and based on proper trials, as determined after the mandatory appeal to the California Supreme Court, should be carried out with dispatch as they are in Texas and Florida. Taking 20 years between conviction and execution is a perversion of the system.

Answer 3

.Witness hell, I would have loved to have pulled the trip handle.
It has been proved that the death penalty is not a crime deterrent. But I feel it should never be abolished.
The reason it isn't a deterrent, is after a person receives the death penalty. The appeals can run on for 25 to 30 yrs.
Not long back Calif. carried out a death sentence on a 78 yr old man, that had been on death row for 28 yrs.
Then there is Charlie Manson, who was sentenced to death and a year later Calif. did away with the death sentence. So Manson's sentence was commuted to life without parole.
The death penalty has since been reinstated.
Keep in mind, every time a prisoner is sentenced to life without parole. That person costs you and me the tax payers $55,000 to $62,000 a year to support.

Answer 4

You went from narrowly focused on the execution of Saddam to a broadside.....the death of A CONVICTED PERSON.

I don't know that I had a duty to watch the excection of Saddam but I would have liked to have watched it. In ALL of the Arab world ALL executions are public and WELL attended. I attended a public execution in Saudi Arabia and in Yemen. Both were jam packed with on lookers. My host in Saudi Arabia said that he and his family go to the executions every week unless hindered.

It is a sick sick culture that turns executions into a SRO sport and my opinion is we should avoid that slippery slope at all costs. Attending two public executions did not change my mind about capital punishment but it sure did enlighten me about how easy it is for masses of people to find "sport" and delight in execution. Can gladiators and public fights to the death be any more perverse?

You need to rethink this entire subject my man!!

Answer 5

I favor capital punishment, to a point !! The condemned person should only be "almost" killed. Then brought back. Then have it done again, and again, and again !!!! (Some times I think going back to "an eye for an eye" might have some merit.) I have a feeling if criminals knew that this would happen to them (especially regarding particularly brutal tortures and murders) it just might deter some violence in the world.

And do we have to see it? Only if someone wants to!

Answer 6

What a side show that was. Bin Laden, Hussein, and Ken Lay are all having lunch with Elvis and Jimmy Swaggart in Mexico right now!

Answer 7

From what I even have heard they are going to tutor factors of it...as far as how lots i don't comprehend...i'm listening to CNN interior the background and Anderson Cooper stated that they (the channel) will view the photos until now airing.

Answer 8

Like me, we in favor of Capital punishment have a desire to watch heinous killers get their just reward. How about you?

Answer 9

no