akuma587 said:
1) The death penalty does not deter criminals from committing crimes anymore than life in prison does. 2) Depriving someone of life is a power that a government should use sparingly, if at all. 3) The death penalty is not cost efficient in the judicial system. 4) Thousands of people have been sentenced to death who were innocent. Human beings are horribly flawed and should not have the power to condemn each other to death. 5) Giving the government too much power is dangerous. Username, I would love to see you live in a country like China where police can trump up charges just so they can put in the newspaper they have caught a killer when really all they care about is putting the blame on someone. I would laugh my ass off if they threw you in jail and sentenced you to death simply because it was easier for them to do that than to actually find the killer. I would come to your execution and savor it while you died painfully and slowly. I would wake up every day happy with that image in my mind of your death.
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1. Source please.
2. Define sparingly. I'm not saying every murderer should die, but those who have killed many in cold blood shouldn't get a free ride the rest of their life.
3. Only because it's been made so damn complicated, a restructuring would easily fix that.
4. Source please. Timeline too please.
5. Agreed, but as I have said, it is extremly difficult to sentence someone to death, I am not proposing making it easier as in "you killed him, we kill you", the judicial process should still be carried out and guidelines should be created to determine who fits the bill.
For the China comment, we're not in China, our system is very different from theirs.
