Capital Punishment

[Mentor]

You wont run out of living people :rolleyes: , Not everyone goes around killing, also you cant say "Oh we don't have the right to kill other people" well they brought it on themselves - If you dont want to die - THEN DONT KILL PEOPLE !

sorry i gave you the credit of being able to comprihend simple logic.

Serial killer murder victim
Person A now has to kill serial killer.
Person b now has to kill person A becuse they killed
Person C now has to kill person B
Person D now has to kill person C
Etc etc?

o.0 Any clearer now?

I'm British and proud, hence why I'd like there to be as little rapists and murderers about. Also there are plenty of petty criminals out and around, because prisons are too full for them to be locked away. Under a regime of capital punishment there would be space to put other criminals, and there would be less street crime.

Death pentalty in the us for exsample costs ONE HELL OF ALOT MORE than keeping someone in presion for life.
Giving one person the death penalty can actually cost more than building an entire prison from scratch as well as staffing it for a few decades in some cases...

[BL!NKEY]

In the UK the law is "innocent until proven guilty", so that's not likely. In America they have "guilty until proven innocent", which is why their prisons and morgues are full of innocent people.

How the *#$% did you get that fact?

It has always been innocent until proven guilty in the USA

And I dont agree with capital punishment because if you really did something bad (Osama or Sadam) you should be tortured for the rest of you life instead of having it easy and dying.

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Giving one person the death penalty can actually cost more than building an entire prison from scratch as well as staffing it for a few decades in some cases...

Really?

How could this be true.

I know it takes a while before they are killed and you have to pay the attournies and stuff but I dont understand how It could cost that much.

Explain please.

[Mentor]

How the *#$% did you get that fact?

It has always been innocent until proven guilty in the USA

And I dont agree with capital punishment because if you really did something bad (Osama or Sadam) you should be tortured for the rest of you life instead of having it easy and dying.

If you did that are you realy any better than Osama yourself...

[BL!NKEY]

If you did that are you realy any better than Osama yourself...

Well that last post by me was not totally serious.

But I think that it is important to use the death penalty for criminals who have truly done something bad and are no question the right person.

Like ones who have been to jail for 10 years and gotton out and killed more people.

The world doesnt need them and all they want to do it kill others.

It is also good to set an example to the other criminals that you wont be treated lightly if you murder others.

About Osama...

If we find him and capture him what do you think we should do with him?

If he is in jail he should never get out.

The thing about torture was brought up in one of my classes about the secret US prisions in the middle east and europe where they tourtured terrorists to try to get information to save lifes of innocent people.

That is a whole nother topic but if anyone is interested I can find an article and make another thread.

[RedStratocas]

Death pentalty in the us for exsample costs ONE HELL OF ALOT MORE than keeping someone in presion for life.
Giving one person the death penalty can actually cost more than building an entire prison from scratch as well as staffing it for a few decades in some cases...

He's right actually. It depends on the state, but many times an execution costs more than to keep them alive in jail.

[samsaBEAR]

For it 100%, people murder and get away with a 'life' prison sentence, which in reality is 25 years. They've ended another's life and they only get max 25 years in a room? They should be killed in exactly the same way they murdered the victim

[Sarah.]

I'm for it, I think the crime rate would go down.

[FlyingJesus]

How the *#$% did you get that fact?

It has always been innocent until proven guilty in the USA

I was just going by how there never seems to be enough conclusive evidence in big cases, and people still get prosecuted.

[Ezzie.]

I heard it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for the death penalty..

Anyone heard about the last person to be hanged?

He was a simple/handicapped person who was framed by one of his friends for murdering somone, becuase he was handicapped he didn't really know what was going on and couldn't defend himself.. so they hanged him, an innocent guilt free man Yes capital punishment is such a blessing.... Why don't we gouge out our eyes so noone can take an eye for an eye.

[RedStratocas]

I was just going by how there never seems to be enough conclusive evidence in big cases, and people still get prosecuted.

Well thats corrupt systems. A lot of time the opposite happens (see OJ Simpson case). For the most part though, the system works.

Oh, and its been proven the death penalty doesnt do anything to the crime rate. People who comit those crimes either aren't afraid to die, or would rather die than go to jail. If jail isnt enough of a motivater for you not to comit a crime, death probably wont be either.