i like it becasue if someone did something bad they should die

I feel that the death penalty should not be used at all. The justice system has made far to many mistakes. Do you know how many people that have commited crimes already had haven't been caught and tried for murder. I feel that if a person is tried and found guilt for there crimes they should not be killed for them. What if they find new evidence in the investigation that will find the person innocent, there's nothing that can be done because the person is dead. What are you suppose to tell the family of the person you just killed. Oopps were sorry, we made a mistake. It's just to late then. It's not right, no matter what way you look at it.

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Ya, right, let's wait for them to kill some more people first, especially the guards-that way, we are SURE they're killers at heart.

The death penalty should be illegal. We, as Americans, often criticize others for killing (think Sadam Hussein) unmercifully, yet we want to have a death penalty? Did you know that it is more expensive to kill someone through the death penalty than it is to imprison them for life? And what about the criminal? They get off easy. Death is much better than 80 years in a prison cell, so really its not too much of a punishment.

I think that people that are tried for some type of crime and are sentenced to life in prison without parole then i think that they should be let one appeal. After that then they should get the death penelty. Why should they rot in prison and waste the people's tax dollars. It may sound harsh but why waste money if the person has no chance of getting out anyway. Now if they person gets charged with 80 years of prison with parole then wait for the parole to come up you could apeal once but if they get parole then dont give them death. However if the person is 50 and is given 80 years with parole after 40 then give it to them. You have to think of the logic will the person die before the parole comes around???

I can see why one might possibly agree with the death penalty in cases where the person in question is dangerous to other inmates/wardens, or I just might could see slightly why one might say the jails are too full, or it's a miserable life anyway, but I am STRONGLY against the death penalty.

First of all, I don't believe we have the right to take someone else's life. That's not really even a "punishment" as the person would no longer be around for it to take effect. Really it's just a way to dispose of an unwanted person, although no one is completely unwanted and it is unfair to punish the family of the person so much as well. Secondly, if we think killing someone is such a horrible crime, WHY DO WE DO IT TO THEM?!?!? I will never understand this. I don't care whether you believe in a God or not, but I do, and it is a sin to kill another. Even if you don't, surely you know that it is wrong. Well, if it is so wrong that we must take such drastic measures, then by those terms the executioner should be killed, and the executioner of the executioner, and so on. I don't think this is right.

You may say, "Well those people are just doing their jobs and the criminals were breaking the law." Sorry to tell you, but in the end you are doing the exact same thing: murdering someone. Maybe there is a reason, maybe there is not, but NO person deserves to go until it is their time.

This is how I feel, and feel free to believe or say otherwise, but it won't affect my opinion. I'm not saying you are a bad person for believing in the death penalty! Sure, everyone has thought at one point or another, "AHH! He's driving me insane I could shoot him!" or something, and we don't consider that terrible, so again I'm not saying you are terrible either. Sorry if I offended anybody but it was not meant to be taken as a personal attack and if it was... well you're just too sensitive! LOL

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Who are we to say it's bad for YOU to take a life, but since you did, we're going to take yours?

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Right. It's hypocritical to take a murderer's life. Murdering a murdering makes you a murderer, also.

" Who are we to take one's life? I mean- it's ironic, isn't it, a murderer decides it's OK to take life, but that's wrong, however- it's NOT wrong for the justice system to take life because they know everything. "

You must be, and rightfully so, pro-(unborn)life, since you made this comment, right? Because, if you weren't, you would be contradicting yourslef completely.

I'm against it. Who are we to take one's life? I mean- it's ironic, isn't it, a murderer decides it's OK to take life, but that's wrong, however- it's NOT wrong for the justice system to take life because they know everything. I don't see the justice in that at all. If a person does commit muder, if you ask me, death is an easy way out. They need to suffer by spend years and years in prison. Or perhaps, in prison they'll have a change in heart.

Who are we to say it's bad for YOU to take a life, but since you did, we're going to take yours?

No, I just know how you are with certain subjects.

You know that on a first hand account?

I have an argument to say but I know it'll cause a bigger argument becasue people never admit their own mistakes.

" Yup, but killing someone because they killed 1 person is unfair. "

Again, if you can lock them up without doing any harm, then that is the way to go.

" Bogey... She was being sarcastic. Even I could see that- about the abortion part anyway. "

I realized that, but there was also some truth (with the part that abortion should be banned). She was also saying it in a mocking way, so I decided to take it literally.

Bogey... She was being sarcastic. Even I could see that- about the abortion part anyway.

As for the death penalty- we're using up tax money- now, I'm not necessarily saying that I'm a money-holding cheeseball- but I wouldn't want to use my money for somebody who's created a genocide.

Yup, but killing someone because they killed 1 person is unfair.

" No, Bogey, the death pentalty is genocide and murder and should be banned, like abortion. "

Since when is public defense murder? The ONLY time the death penalty should ever be used, is if the person is a harm to society. As I said, with today's prisons, the death penalty should not be used.

Murder, genocide, and abortion are all unjustified actions, unlike the nature of the death penalty. Now, the death penalty misused, can also be included in this list.

No, Bogey, the death pentalty is genocide and murder and should be banned, like abortion.

It would be foolish to say that the death penalty is always wrong, but it is pretty safe to say that it never has to be used in America today. The only reason for the sentencing someone to death is if they are a threat to society, and with today's prison system, that is rarely, if ever, the case.