2007-01-05 22:54:16 · 14 answers · asked by Salih D 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
personally i believe the punishment should fit the crime.eye for an eye..if a person shoots another person then he should be shot.if someone is raped is murdered then same goes for that person who committed the crime. Sounds cold maybe but some just get off to easy
2007-01-05 22:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by solsbj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is one I have always struggled with. Some people are so dangerous to society that is seems almost essential to assure that , that one person will never be loosed on society again. But I don't think executing someone has ever worked as a deterrent to crime. I could never be the one who carried out the execution. I also could not watch one. So I can't say I think it is right. But...I'm not sure it is always wrong. The means should be as humane as possible. Because the way we choose to do these things say more about us than the people being executed.
2007-01-06 07:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Execution has two purposes:
1) To get rid of a dangerous criminal once and for all
2) To act as a deterrant to others inclined to commit the same crime.
For better results in deterring mass murders, I would encourage law enforcement to begin using alternative methods of execution:
1) Suspend body 250' above the ground by a nylon rope tied to a crane and introduce a slow acting acid that takes several days to eat through the material. Dip body in honey for added entertainment.
2) Boil body alive in 140 degree liquid over several days or weeks (that's about equal to most people's straight hot from the faucet). If they starve before they drown or otherwise parish, too bad, so sad.
3) Tie criminal down to a bed in the bottom of a pit and introduce ant population with carefully controlled environment where the body of the criminal is the only food.
Think this is harsh? Just imagine what it's like to be innocent, going about your business, harming no one, and to be suddenly snuffed out of existence by someone you've never met! The agony of the family lasts a life time, worse than all the tortures listed above.
2007-01-06 07:05:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion, no one has the right to kill (or execute) someone else, because that is justified only by the fact that the killer is a better person than or morally superior to the victim - but all people are equal.
That's on moral grounds. On political grounds, execution encourages revenge, and if everyone is taking revenge out on each other a country is in chaos.
On religious grounds, I obey the law that says 'Thou shalt not murder.'
2007-01-06 07:00:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When an innocent life is taken , the person taking that life forfeits its right as a human being. That ultimate punishment of death should be used. Whatever way is the quickest should be used. I would prefer lethal injection over the rest. First sedate them, then kill them. There is no cruel and unusual punishment towards a person that faces the death penalty. That is how they got in that place in the first place from the person they killed.
2007-01-06 07:05:04 · answer #5 · answered by meathead 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's right. They should be executed in a way that equivilant to their crime comitted. If they kill three people, injection. 30= beheadding. The jury should decide what would be appropriate.
2007-01-06 06:57:56 · answer #6 · answered by lav_atina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not right to take any life whoever it is, even by a so called legal verdict, its hypocritical.
Offenders of killings or other grave offenders should be locked up in solitary confinement with nothing what so ever to distract them till they die of natural causes. And ignored the human rights acts.
Sex and child offenders should be castrated.
2007-01-06 07:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by android200002 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
By administering the crimes of the criminals, what good would it do? What would be gained? Nothing, except hate and more violence. Put an end to capitol punishment!
2007-01-06 07:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if there crime was taking a life. They should also lose their right to live. Method - best is lethal injection, electric chair and hanging.
2007-01-06 06:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by prof_g_whizz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saying something is right, or wrong for that matter, changes depending on what your beliefs are. So in short, there can't be a blunt right, or wrong for this question.
2007-01-06 07:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by Justin J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋