Are you for OR against the death penalty?
2007-01-05 14:20:07 · 7 answers · asked by T Time 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Larry.....that was not the point that I was trying to make, that there isn't such a difference. Actually, it's in direct opposition to that.
2007-01-05 14:49:46 · update #1
yes it is wrong
2007-01-06 09:35:10 · answer #1 · answered by Mylo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I used to be for it. There is an important moral difference between a convicted murderer and an innocent unborn child. The argument I suspect you are trying to make (that there isn't such a difference) is overly simplistic. One can be in favor of killing convicted murderers (or traitors) and still be against the killing of children who's only "crime" is that they were concieved at a time their mothers find inconvienent. There is no moral equivelance between the two groups.
That being said, I am now against the death penalty. Not because I doubt the morality of the death penalty, but because I have begun to have doubts about the court system's ability to fairly carry it out. Harris County (Houston) sends more people to Texas' death row than any other county in Texas, and Texas executes more people than any other state in the union. Reciently though it has come out that the Harris County Crime Lab had been faking test results. It is not at all impossible that people have been convicted, perhaps even executed, baised upon these false results. As such I don't think I can morally support the death penalty if it is not going to be correctly applied.
2007-01-05 22:36:40 · answer #2 · answered by Larry R 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Death penalty....yep! People who rape and kill little kids should be lowered slowly into a wood chipper and chewed to bits. Of course there are other types of terrible crimes that deserve the death penalty. Also, if it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that a person is guilty, straight to the chair. Maybe three months to fight it. No sense in my tax dollars keeping him alive. They are wasted enough as it is.
How can someone be against the death penalty and be for abortion...that's a death sentence to an innocent.
It's like these ACLU nutbags saying a murderer has rights but someone who hasn't even sinned yet doesn't. Give me a friggin break.
Now, I can understand two possible instances for abortion. Rape and health. A woman who is raped didn't ask for sex. As long as the abortion takes place before there is a beating heart, I'm fine with it. Take the 'morning after' pill. The same goes for health. If a woman finds out she's pregnant and knows it's a 80% chance of her or the baby dying due to complications, same thing. Do it before the heart starts beating. Other than that, if a girl/woman lays down without taking precautions, it ain't the baby's fault that it's there. If she tries to kill it with alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes, then she should be put on trial for attempted murder. If you don't want the kid, give it up for adoption. A baby shouldn't have to die because some girl didn't want to take the pill or her "man" didn't want to wear a rubber.
If the pro-choice people still have a problem with capital punishment, just tell them to look at it as a really late term abortion....they should be ok with that.
2007-01-05 23:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by unclewill67 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I believed that our courts could or would hand down a fair sentence, to the absolute best of their ability, I would be for the death penalty. As things currently sit with our liberal, activist judges you are likely to get lethal injection for having a cigarette in a public place and two years probations and some feel good counseling for first degree murder. That is, unless the person you kill just happens to be pregnant and on her way to get an abortion, then you get two convictions for murder and the death penalty is the only possible fair punishment.
2007-01-05 22:58:35 · answer #4 · answered by avatar2068 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not "pro-life"... I am anti-abortion
I believe that it is wrong to kill an innocent unborn human being regardless of whether you call it a baby or fetus or whatever... it is a 99.999% probability that it is a developing human being... maybe more dependent on another person than some people but not so much more dependent than say adults on ventilators and other life support in the hospital... only his life support is supposed to be one of his creators...
I believe that it is right for the government to execute a criminal who has taken the life of another or several others... a person guilty of destroying a human life without just cause or out of protection of his own life... if a person has been found guilty or admitted their guilt of murder and has been sentenced to die for a crime... I think the people have the right to put that person to death to protect others and to avoid potential vengeful vendettas that lead to they types of ethnic and cultural strife we see in many other countries on the news
plus the killing of babies erodes the culture and destroys the base that provides social security in every sense of the word..
a society that kills its innocent youth and prolongs the life of the guilty adults is destroying itself in a hurry
2007-01-05 22:35:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
All depends. In the case of a pedophile I am for a slow agonizing tormentuos death.
2007-01-05 22:31:01 · answer #6 · answered by n0s 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I'm pro-life and pro death penalty.
I believe in euthanasia for terminally ill people.
Life is fleeting.
2007-01-05 22:29:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋