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Capital Punishment: For or Against?

For. Let them burn in hell 16 34.78%
 
Against. They could be innocent. 24 52.17%
 
Candy!!! 6 13.04%
 
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FaRmLaNd on 05 March 2010

Against. more later when I have more time to post.



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leo-j on 05 March 2010

Against



 

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Kantor on 05 March 2010
damkira said:
Against.

Life imprisonment is worse and costs less in the US.

I don't see how that's possible. Hanging involves a piece of rope, a wooden structure and a trapdoor. Life imprisonment involves ~40 years of food, healthcare, etc.



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FootballFan on 05 March 2010
Kantor said:
damkira said:
Against.

Life imprisonment is worse and costs less in the US.

I don't see how that's possible. Hanging involves a piece of rope, a wooden structure and a trapdoor. Life imprisonment involves ~40 years of food, healthcare, etc.


I think its because of all the legal trials and things. Well that would be my guess, im stumped to!



KingFate on 05 March 2010
Kantor said:
damkira said:
Against.

Life imprisonment is worse and costs less in the US.

I don't see how that's possible. Hanging involves a piece of rope, a wooden structure and a trapdoor. Life imprisonment involves ~40 years of food, healthcare, etc.

The death penalty is FAR more expensive, it can cost the state close to a million dollars to have ONE man put to death. As opposed to 30-60k a year for twenty five to life.



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FootballFan on 05 March 2010
KingFate said:
Kantor said:
damkira said:
Against.

Life imprisonment is worse and costs less in the US.

I don't see how that's possible. Hanging involves a piece of rope, a wooden structure and a trapdoor. Life imprisonment involves ~40 years of food, healthcare, etc.

The death penalty is FAR more expensive, it can cost the state close to a million dollars to have ONE man put to death. As opposed to 30-60k a year for twenty five to life.


To many lawyers around these days!



MontanaHatchet on 05 March 2010

I'd love it the government had the ability to murder me.

We would be one step closer to a dictatorship, and frankly, that's my kind of thing.

By the way, I'm being sarcastic. We constantly argue about government power, and what things government should be able to do. Why give them the power to murder citizens, regardless of their crime? And talk to people in life imprisonment. People who have to live in repetitive boredom for decades, who often suffer with their guilt for their remaining days, and grow old knowing that they wasted their entire life. Killing them is going easy on them.

Also, to quote something that's quoted a lot:

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Gandhi

Killing someone because they're a murderer makes about as much sense as elephant diapers.



 

 

KingFate on 05 March 2010

The point of the death penalty is to be more of a deterrent more than anything else. If it were up to me I'd lock them in a 8 by 8 room with a toilet,sink,bed, and a small hole so they can get trays of food. They never leave the cell they don't have any human contact save the people who give them food. It's not killing someone and they have lost their humanity so it pleases both camps. ;)



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chocoloco on 05 March 2010

Anything that will save tax dollars/euros/pounds etc. is worth it as long as it is done quickly, and does not clog up the court system.



SciFiBoy on 05 March 2010
chocoloco said:
Anything that will save tax dollars/euros/pounds etc. is worth it as long as it is done quickly, and does not clog up the court system.

based on that we should have total anarchy...how better to save tax money than buy having no laws, no army, no government?

(im not advocating this at all, im pointing out a flaw in his reasoning)