VGC Debate/Poll: The Death Penalty

[elprincipe]

oliminator1994 said:
If your family or most loved one got killed, you would be happy with the Criminal to get away with it by been put in jail?. Lots of prisoners dont find jail a punishment, maybe thats the problem why people take the chances and risks where they could go to jail.

Why do you feel going to jail is "geting away with it"?  It's not.  I don't know how you can say that.

Anyway, although I am against the death penalty, there are a couple of things I should also note:

1. The U.S. Constitution clearly allows it (obviously this doesn't mean we have to do it, and we shouldn't)

2. I'm all for those guilty of murder, for whom I hold nothing but contempt, performing hard physical labor for the rest of their days in any attempt to provide what resitution they can to the families of their victims.  These scum should be out digging ditches every day for the rest of their lives.  The state can take the earnings courts have decreed must be provided for such work and confiscate them to give the families of victims some recompense.  And I don't think they should have anything considered beyond basic, i.e. no TV, no double bed, etc.  Certainly nothing that a homeless man on the street wouldn't have.