The supporters of the death penalty insist that it keeps crime down, helps the victims' families and is just punishment. Those against the death penalty argue that the economic, moral and ethical cost too high a price to pay.
Life without parole or no life at all -- what's your say?
Unfortunately we must pay taxpayer money, over $20,000 a year, to keep a prisoner in prison "for life". I would much rather that money go to some other cause like ending homelessness or helping small children rather than paying for an inmate to eat, sleep, and cr.ap - for life no less.
I think we should just have a big island where we put all the prisoners and they have their own society and whatnot, we help them start farms and if they turn to anarchy, oh well, we tried to help them. Oh wait, that's already been tried, it was called Australia or New Zealand or whatever, yuck yuck.
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Some things are honestly worse than immediate death...AKA being locked within a prison with horrible inmates. Therefore, I vote for life without parole. No need to make things messier than neccessary.
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I think that life without parole is better because while you may not be 'free' per se, you still have the ability to act or interact with other humans and possibly become reformed. And anyway death is permanent and often times and more than it should be, many innocent people are put to death because of carelessness of evidence, lying, or people's inabilities to keep their emotions out of making a justifiable decision concerning someones life. If a person that committed a crime so heinous that they're sentenced to death, the people who convict them (the jury and even the judge included because they can override a jury) to the people who are there to witness it, to the person who actually commits the act are all murderers. No killing is justifiable, no matter what has been done against someone. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, is just revenge that doesn't change the fact that one person's dead and the other is alive. In no way can the dead person be helped so taking the life of the living for the dead is selfish.
One Sentence:"Thou Shalt Not Kill" I beleive that the death penalty is only a reward for convicted murderers, I think that by putting them to death you are ridding them of all guilt they have. Life without parole is much better. and besides u never know who may be innocent.
personally, i think life in prison, with no parole, limited contact with the outside world, and living with yourself as a convicted murderer (and a beastly cellmate who likes your a** a little too much) would be far more harsh than ending your life.
sorry i was gone for so long. these presidential duties are so taxing. had a thing called spirit week at my school and it sucked. i was called in by Bushsupporter so i thought id come over to have a chat.
it contradicts itself on that issue? how so? it is quite clear in the Noahic Covenant that should a man take away another man's life, heis life is forfeit.
Bushsupporter, I don't think that Blue is mocking republicans or people of faith. You really need to take it down a few notches. All Blue is saying that she doesn't understand how a Christian could support the death penalty. Anyways, the Bible is unclear on that issue.
Actually Blue, the death penalty is morally justified in the Bible so... it is not hypocritical for people of faith, or "moral", as you would so mockingly and hatefully call them, to support the death penalty.
By the way, it is just disrespectful to say "Mr. Bush." I would never say Mr. Clinton. The Office of the President must be respected no matter what you think of the current office holder. But that is just another example of your immaturity I guess.
"Freedom is not Free"-Korean War Memorial, Washington DC.
It is hypocritical to kill a person for murder. Its also hypocritical for our supposedly "moral" president, Mr. Bush to support the death penalty. If sentencing people to die is not immoral than I don't know what is.
death penalty is millions of dollars every year why dont we just keep them in jail for a life long sentance?? i mean it is creul. Like your mother always said 2 wrongs dont make a right!
If our system wasn't punitive and meant that you could still have a life--just one with no freedom because you were a danger to others--then I choose life without parole. As the system stands, I think death might be more humane, but I generally don't believe that it's okay to kill people. Particularly because anyone who is a serial killer is probably pretty messed up and cannot be held to the same expectations of reason and conscience as others.
This is such a hard issue to face. Although I am usually not for killing, execution seems to somehow be the solution to some problems. I think the felons who murdered more than 2 people should be sentenced to death row (And that is ONLY if the court is ABSOLUTELY SURE that they are 100% guilty!). But if they haven't killed more than 2 (and they are willing), I think that they should be able to do workshops and things like that to make them just better people (even if they won't be realised). Though, the other good thing about executions is that there is no way that the felons can escape, which would cause more problems. So, as you can tell I think that executions can be very helpful, but only for those who have killed more than two people.
quote: I really don't see how death solves anything.
I agree.. i mean, its better if the criminal would serve life without parole, so while in prison, he will have all the days of his life to torture his mind with what he has done... Plus, if a person is given life without parole, he will die a slow death and to me, that is the right and best punishment rather than killing the person. Because killing would just make us killers too.
I apologise for the numerous posts. I didn't read pages 2 & 3 before I posted the others.
quote: I don't see any f****ng reason why we should kill our fellow humans because they committed a crime of murder, 'tis not right every human has the right to live no matter how grave the crime may be
Even though this person took by force another's right to live, their right to live should still be respected even though they would take such actions again? I do not believe criminals should have more rights than law-abiding citizens.
quote: all we need to do is to make our prison's safer and reduce the rate at which prisoners are mis-treated
What will this do to prevent crime?
quote: Then God will... touch the hearts of the culprits
What of those who refuse to believe in God? ...who have rejected him as false or have become so wrapped in sin so as to desire Hell more than Heaven? (Some people are like this, even some who aren't killers. Look into classic heavy metal bands for some examples.)
I am Christian. I hear what you are saying, but some of it doesn't quite seem flush with some people and their ways. We live in a fallen world. We can direct people toward God, but some just won't go.
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