2007-07-11 23:49:13 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
The death penalty should never be a solution to anything but, and hey with me there is always a "but", the serial murders of children or any serial murderer in fact..I am not talking a terrorist who believes he has a cause, and I believe many do..remember, if they had had the death penalty for terrorism, many Jewish leaders, Ben Gurien, the King David Hotel, anfrom Israel's developing days and of course the world would never have known Nelson Mandela and never forget the American forefathers..to King George maybe George Washington was a terrorist..and hey let's even go back to Cromwell or the leaders of the French Revolution..no, the death penalty is not the answer..the answer is get rid of the cowboys like Bush and get people who understand why a boy will strap on a bomb and give his life to kill innocent people..because he has a cause..and a cause to die for is just maybe what North Americans need to get their country back for the corporate thieves..so am I a terrorist for saying that?..maybe...a philosophical Anarchist..definitely...but we all have causes it is just how far we have to go...in the US when the towers were taken down, the U.S. media was obsessed with Gary Conditd while Palestinians were dying in the streets and nothing was being reported..the terrorist has to act to get the attention of the world and that alone is a sad comment...if we follow what you MAY be advocating, then what about politicians, and I will not name them because it is obvious who I am talking about, who order torture and death in the name of a war that does not exist..the bombing of innocents because they have some goal most of us have yet to unsderstand..should people like that not be executed..how many innocents can we accredit to the likes of Rumsfeld..he is even responsible for supplying the chemicals used on the Kurds..no, never the death penalty unless it is a sadistic serial killer and then I am behind it...Sorry you set me off..I will try to contain my answers in the future.
2007-07-12 04:25:11 · answer #1 · answered by bruce b 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No - the death penalty should not be reintroduced into our society.
Regardless of how death is achieved - murder is murder - however more socially acceptable death by lethal injection administered by a government is.
However, sentances should be heavier, jails should be tougher, rehabilitation should be thorough. People should not serve half of their sentances for behaving themselves. Prison should not have any comforts. All human rights should go out the window when commiting a crime such as murder, peadophilia or terrorism.
But, the death penalty is a medievil way of controlling society. It does not reduce crime - you only have to look at america to see that - it just saves a few pennys.
Lock them up for life - make them suffer - make an example of each and every one of them to discourage those who feel the need to break our laws.
But if you take an eye for an eye - the whole world will end up blind.
2007-07-12 00:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, I am firmly against the death penalty. I think life should mean life - not 15 years or whatever it is these days, and these people should be locked up away from society for the rest of their lives. Capital punishment is legal murder - it makes us no better than they are at the end of the day, and is simply a way of exacting revenge.
You can't say that in this day of DNA evidence miscarriages of justice wouldn't happen either. There is not always DNA evidence available, and what about those poor women who were jailed for killing their babies, who were recently released. Miscarriages of justice still happen even in this day and age.
Oh and capital punishment is not a deterrent - you only have to look at America to see that, especially Texas which strongly enforces the death penalty, yet has one of, if not the highest crime rate for murder.
I think terrorists, paedophiles, murderers, rapists etc. are reprehensible and evil, but I won't sink to their level and call for them to be killed and tortured.
2007-07-12 01:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by Chipmunk 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
YES!!! The DEATH PENALTY Should be reintroduced for Terrorist Attacks
Murder
Rape
Pedophiles
2007-07-12 00:50:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think the death penalty should be restored for all t ypes of murder, not just terrorists. It would solve our chronically full prison problem and act as a strong deterent to anyone considering murder- which is now so frequent in this country that it barely gets a mention in the national newspapers.
2007-07-12 03:58:56 · answer #5 · answered by colgirl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree with the death penalty. Not because I am some lily livered leftie.
Even today, with all the scientific breakthroughs in DNA and forensics, they still sometimes get it wrong. Now whilst most might say, its the price to pay for a better society, but what if it was your family member, put to death, innocent.
The other reason I am against the death penalty, especially for the guilty ones..I think death is too quick and simple for them. I want them locked behind bars for the rest of their lives. I think there should be no privileges in prison, no TV, no fags, no entertainment....and life should mean life.....I would vote to bring that in!
2007-07-12 00:57:27 · answer #6 · answered by LEXY 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
These terrorists love death; they would enjoy the martyrdom.
Let them be locked up for life with their own thoughts for company with the risk of other inmates beating the hell out of them for 40 - 50 years, the stress may kill them off anyway.
If they are caught and sent to jail, in their minds they have failed, their only way out is suicide and not death in battle, this is against their religious beliefs so no quick death and martyrdom just decades of misery, this is by far a much better punishment for all of their comrades to see and be frightful of even though it will cost more money to keep them.
If jail was too soft for criminals why do so many Kill themselves after a few years; ie mass murderers:- Dr Death Shipley and Fred West.
Life in Jail is the best thing for these people; death is too quick for them.
2007-07-12 01:09:28 · answer #7 · answered by David C 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think its a fair comment to bring it back. But, what if (and it has been done) we get the wrong person?? I think the first port of call for the terrorists is to deport them back to their own country so the British tax payer is not funding their stay in UK prisons. The UK born terrorists should be dealt with in a severe way, may be the Islamic way, an eye for an eye etc is the way ahead. The justice system does need an overhaul!! Good Question.
2007-07-12 00:52:03 · answer #8 · answered by Su John 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Israel, the country that has suffered the most from attacks by Mohammadan terrorists over the past 40+ years, doesn't have a death penalty.
2007-07-12 00:24:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The problem I have with the death penalty is the chance of incorrectly killing an innocent man or woman.
I'm all for it in principle, but there have been so many cases of injustice in this country you can't be totally sure about many convictions.
2007-07-11 23:52:03 · answer #10 · answered by mark 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋