I am for the death penalty! I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. But I am glad for the death penalty, some people like Jeffrey Dahmer and other heinous murderers who will never be of value to society, should be put to death to protect the rest of us. If I had my way, rapists would be put to death too. That is a crime that does not have strong enough sentences. The death penalty definitely discourages crime!
2007-02-17 14:09:48
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answered by Kat 3
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The "cruel and unusual punishment" is how the condemned is executed. Currently the thought is that lethal injection is not an inhumane way to execute the condemned. It takes approximately 15 minutes to accomplish this with three to four different types of drugs. Each of which leads to the other. Not to mention that the stint has to be flushed prior to each drug being used. Go figure.
It takes approximately 10-12 seconds to execute the condemned by hanging if the drop table is used correctly. It's the weight of the individual divided by 1100 which will give the correct amount of slack necessary to break the neck. Albert Pierrepoint made a drop table that is still in use today. The botched hangings in Iraq were due to misuse of the drop tables and incorrect weights of the condemned, and not to mention the wrong type of noose. The English slipknot is more effective than the American type Hangman's noose.
I for one am a proponent of the Death Penalty. Rape in the military is a crime that constitutes the Death Penalty. Yes I agree that it should also be used in the civilian sector as well... just my viewpoint on this question and a little bit of history and facts as well.
2007-02-17 17:20:37
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answered by Sergeant Major 3
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Why did some people believe slavery was ":unconstitutional"? Why do some people believe abortion is "unconstitutional? If you live in America, anything can be "unconstitutional". All you have to do is find an attorney who will take your cause to court!
Constitutionally, I have the right to live in peace; yet, I have a Hispanic family living in the apartment above me (probably illegal immigrants) who choose to have bouts of wrestling, weight-lifting, and hours of loud music that must come from Tijuana, Juarez, or some other Hispanic source. What's an American Indian to do? Must I retaliate with "stomp dances", indigenous tribal Indian pow wows?
Tonight, "capital punishment, aka, the "death penalty" seems a minor infraction to my constitutional right to peace!
2007-02-17 18:05:00
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answered by Baby Poots 6
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I believe it is the Constitutional Amendment relating to "cruel and unusual punishment." Some of us truly due believe that life is precious from conception to death; and that we, as human beings, do not have the right to take a life. Others do not believe that. They only believe that life is precious from conception to birth.
It is an age old problem. And one that no society will ever agree on 100%. So I advise people, believe what you feel is right; and allow me to do the same, and then get on with your life.
2007-02-17 14:09:56
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answered by ? 5
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enable's cope with information, please. The U.S. shape has 2 amendments that ought to be interpreted to make the dying penalty unlawful. the 1st is the 8th substitute, which prohibits merciless and unusual punishments. people who factor to this one usually say that putting somebody to dying, tremendously after making them think of roughly it for years on a similar time as their situations bypass in the process the courts, is merciless. Others factor to the lots extra fluid ninth substitute, which covers rights no longer relatively suggested someplace else in the form (I advise you examine it in case you have not got self belief me). Madison located that one in the bill of Rights to get carry of "rights in the considered necessary selection" against government. it would be common to argue that there is an absolute staggering from the ninth substitute to no longer be killed via government for a criminal offense. This staggering might appear like the 5th or 14th substitute, yet no longer enable government to eliminate life after due technique replaced into given. additionally, this question did no longer specify which shape. Many state constitutions relatively disallow the dying penalty. And in others, it would yet for the conservative interpretations of the splendid court docket of that state. i'm questioning of states like Indiana, the place the state shape says the penal code is to be reformative, no longer in reaction to vindictive justice. Killing a individual would not reform or restore them. So in states like Indiana, the courts can basically positioned on blinders in choose of the dying penalty and get their very own constitutions incorrect.
2016-10-02 07:55:10
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answered by eylicio 3
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Based on Amendment 8 of the US Constitution.
Amendment VIII (eight), which is part of the U.S. Bill of Rights, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (death qualifies as cruel and unusual) among other things.
2007-02-17 14:10:18
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answered by Anonymous
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well thought out.
2007-02-17 15:21:04
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answered by Anonymous
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