Death Penalty? Right Or Wrong [LATEST DEBATE]
 

Are You
For OR Against
The Death Penalty & Why??

Absolutely and totally against it.

Against- let the b*stards suffer! I don't believe in 'a life for a life', its the cowards way out. I think instead the governments should be much harsher and people should be stripped of basic human rights and treated like animals. When someone is given the death penalty they've ruined someone elses life and potentially their family. People who do that to people deserve to have their life made into hell and their life ruined too, but not ended. As I say its a cowards way out.

Well. If the person has done something terrible ( like terrorists ) then yeh i kinda think yes. Also if the torcher and kill more them 15 people or w.e i also think yes.

I think there's too much of a chance of someone being wrongly sentenced for it to work

Against it 100%

It's a stupid system, people are wrongly acused at scary amounts these days because of racist or homophobic policemen.
Plus if you wanted to kill someone because they killed others then you're just as bad as them aren't you!

I am against it - I think people can change. Thats VERY naive of me and I am the first to admit that not everyone can but I do believe that a lot of people do REALLY bad things and in time they realise this and change as a person.

Also it could be a continuing circle - the people who killed them would have killed someone... so should they be killed?! oooooo

Totally against! this is a crazy world as it is without us killing people in the name of the law! And what Hannah and Annie said...and Kate

Completely against in all cases without exception it and nobody could change my mind on the matter.

It's just legaised murder by the state and the denial of the state of a fundermental human right, the right to life. It amounts to prenediated cold-blooded killing by state in the name of the people and, is in the case where the victium is a murder, is just as bad as the crime they have comitted.

It makes murders of use all.

100% opposed to the death penalty. How can we justify another persons crime by saying it is ok to kill them :bored:

Absolutely Red. Death Penalty is just a way of saying "we don't approve of you doing what you did, but we can justify doing it ourselves." There is no way on earth anyone could ever sway my opinion on this. I will never ever support the death penalty.

It's not even that I don't think some of these people probably deserve to die. If Ian Huntley (to use a well known example) ever succeeded in committing suicide, I would not shed tears, but under NO circumstances do I feel that anybody else has the right to decide whether he should live or die. And I don't believe all this rubbish about 'a life for a life'. At some stage, someone has to take the higher ground, and it should be the justice system which does that.

Against.

I am 100% for the death penalty, some people shouldn't have the right to live and have no use so they may aswell be killed. I can't see why the government allow some people to live and I would love to have the job at carrying the death penalty out on the criminals

And we have the right to decide that do we?

yes..

But what if you were to kill an innocent person and found out. Imagine how bad you would feel. Especially if there was a family involved.

I'm against btw

If murder is wrong, then to murder is wrong, and the death penalty is murder, so it's wrong.

If murder is right, then there's no reason to be punishing murderers and thus no need for a death penalty.

Either way you look at it, the death penalty is wrong.

Also a lot of innocent people are wrongly convicted... how would you like to be one of them?

Wrong, but sometimes when people do horrible things at first I feel like they be given the death penalty but if you think about it you're just as bad as it's like killing someone.

Reading through this thread, I agree 100% with Tom. They should have a special area in jails and just bare concrete floors and walls. No designer chairs and internet and SKY + sub. The police and public should be allowed to abuse and hurt and destroy the murderers until they break down.

What for crimes?

Ones like these... murder, espionage, treason, political dissidence, rape, adultery, incest, sodomy, homosexuality, drug trafficking, human trafficking, corruption and apostasy piracy. All of which carry the death penalty some where in the world.

The people that advocate the use of the death penalty are no better than a premeditated murders. And if they don't like the fact that we don't have the death penalty in the EU because we up hold the human rights of the individual and see ourselves as better than murders by not debasing ourselves to their level of barbarity.

If people feel so strongly in favor of death penalty the they are are more than welcome to go to the China and get jobs as executioners. With the state there murdering over 5000 people I sure they have openings.

You say that until you find yourself or a loved one accused of a crime he didn't commit. Do you have no empathy? Compassion? Do you really think the police should be allowed to beat and abuse (both verbally and physically) these people, and that members of the PUBLIC should be allowed IN to do the same!? Are you crazy?

I hope you will forgive that this is a bit of a touchy subject for me, as my Uncle whom I loved with all of my heart was murdered by the government as "punishment" for a crime that we KNOW he didn't commit.

I am against it.

I love that idea!

I am against the death penalty because these criminals will not suffer for their crimes like murder or rape. If they are killed, they don't suffer at all. I want these criminals to suffer for what they have done.

well Im glad you dont run the country! And what happens when you kill someome innocent? theres plenty of examples of miscarraiges of justice, eg that stefan kiszko, who was convicted of killing a little girl. He would have been put to death in your world. years later they found it wasnt him and the real perpetrator has recently been convicted! youd have blood on your hands mate

most of the people who commit the worst sort of crimes have already lived those kinds of lives during their childhoods anyway and thats why they end up that way! you have a lot of growing up to do. remove them from society yes. treat them like that no!

True, indeed. Not forgetting that the death penalty is no deterrent anyway.

*The crime rate is higher in states in the US where they have the death penalty, than where they don't. Now I can almost hear people retaliating with 'that's why they have the death penalty in those states - because they're the most violent'. However, if it was an effective deterrrent, surely violent crime in those states would be much lower considering how long they have had the death penalty.

*Most people on Death Row come from poverty stricken backgrounds, and cannot afford decent representation. Many of the state lawyers who are appointed to defend them in court are high on drugs, have been known frequently to pass out or fall asleep in court, and are notorious for providing incomplete and incompetent defences.

*It is actually more expensive to hold a trial for someone where the sentence if found guilty is death, than to keep someone in prison for life.

*The death penalty is about revenge. It's basically the country saying 'we have the right to kill you, because you peed us off'. Somewhere along the line, someone has to take the moral high ground and prove that they are the better and bigger person. That should fall to the justice system.

*In a four year period in the 80s, in America, at least 24 men were executed and then found to have either been innocent, or at least to have enough evidence to strongly question their guilt. Would those pro-death penalty supporters want to explain that to those peoples families?

*To me, I cannot find it in me to ever ever support the murder of another person, no matter what they have done. It is not about them - it's about how I would feel about myself and my country. I am proud that we do not have the death penalty. And yes, I am proud that we provide a basic standard of care to our prisoners. We are supposed to be a humane society - not just humane to those who don't pee us off.

*If anyone is able to get hold of the documentary Fourteen Days in May, I urge you to watch it. It is utterly compelling. And a fabulous book which I would recommend anyone read - packed with info about the death penalty, as well as a compelling true story - Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean.

I recommend Monster and Boy A to provide some food for thought