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Death penalty?

Yes! 39 21.08%
 
No. 146 78.92%
 
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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

I live in Brazil, and... No.

Also, I'm totally against it.

EDIT: Oh, you are brazilian too... Just noticed it.

Cool, a brazilian =)



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

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tak13 said:
StarOcean said:
I believe the only first world countries that currently have it are the US and Japan

You mean some states...Am I wrong?

As for Japan, yeah and they defend it strongly when they get scathed for that! By the way, Japan has very low criminal rate, I wonder if it's because of it... I mean you don't want risking your life by  commiting a crime, of course for a grave crime ( like murder or rape ) , I don't think you get executed for example, if  you steal jewelery, money e.t.c or burgling

Yeah, it's only some states. But it exists enough to where I still consider it a place that has death penalty. Of course, like you said, it is only in select parts of the US



Chile, we don't have it and I don't think we should. I doubt it would work since we already had it before



Germany and we don't have death penalty and this is good so imo.



StarOcean said:
tak13 said:

You mean some states...Am I wrong?

As for Japan, yeah and they defend it strongly when they get scathed for that! By the way, Japan has very low criminal rate, I wonder if it's because of it... I mean you don't want risking your life by  commiting a crime, of course for a grave crime ( like murder or rape ) , I don't think you get executed for example, if  you steal jewelery, money e.t.c or burgling

Yeah, it's only some states. But it exists enough to where I still consider it a place that has death penalty. Of course, like you said, it is only in select parts of the US

Quoted me before correcting my typos... :(

 

So, I'm right, I puzzled  over when I read USA for obvious reasons!



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Jamaica, and yes we do have it. We haven't applied it in years though. I highly doubt it deters crimes either.



Greece, and we don't have it since 1993...

If death penantly means, less rapes and less intentional/premeditated murder, then I wouldn't mind if we had it...

We would also avoid prison congestion by this!




New Zealand, we don't have the death penalty, and I am not absolutely for or against it.



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From the UK and we do not have it. Because we are civilised.

I also do not agree with it. I'd prefer to let them waste their lives for 50+ years in a cell.



tak13 said:
Greece, and we don't have it since 1993...

If death penantly means, less rapes and less intentional/premeditated murder, then I wouldn't mind if we had it...

We would also avoid prison congestion by this!


Most countries (accept HUGE acceptions) only execute so many people a year. You would need to execute quite literally thousands upon thousands to lower prison populations in certain countries.