Capital Punishment

[iluvhelen]

Yeah, I do then.

[Thanks Herman]

[-Soph-]

dno what it is

Death sentance

[Grindie]

I'm for, but I really can't be bothered to argue with you guys, the debate is so long...

[-:Undertaker:-]

Im for it, people who say their against it wouldn't be saying "Dont kill the Muderers and Rapists" if it happend to a Family member in their own family.

[alexxxxx]

No. I believe it's wrong, what if they were innocent?

[RedStratocas]

Against it, for a few reasons. One, it's hypocritical. "We're going to fry your brains out, thatll show you not to kill people!". Its like spanking a child as punishment for hitting someone. And two, there is no set rule, the death penalty punishment is completely out of wack. Someone who kills 1 person could be sentenced to death, while someone who kills 6 could be sentenced to life in prison. There is no rule or guide that says this law broken = death.

And also, because MANY times an innocent person gets it. They found in an Ohio study that 1/3 of the cases for a death penalty sentence had a flaw.

[Mentor]

Im againinst it for the simple reason i DONT KILL PEOPLE. Supporting it is little better than becomeing a serial killer yourself, Or at least accessory to it. Since your simply helping and supporting the "state" to kill deffencless people...

The problem is with the crapy prison sentances now days, and the fact it seems to have been forgotten that prison is a punishment, life should actualty mean life, and prison should be harsher. But Sinking to the level of the people in them isnt a particaly good way to go about it "/

Im for it, people who say their against it wouldn't be saying "Dont kill the Muderers and Rapists" if it happend to a Family member in their own family.

Murders and rapests have familys too, should they then get to kill you? becuse at this rate where gona end up with the population whiped out, if you follow an eye for an eye, the hole world will go blind, as gandi put it "/

[FlyingJesus]

Who are we to take or save somebody's life? I believe in my personal, psychologic and philosophical opinium we are not to take somebody's life for his or her's sins. Why should anybody have the athority to go 'Your to die,' or 'Ohh we will keep you alive,'

If we don't have the authority to take life, how do we have authority to lock people up? I know it's not the same thing, but my point is that sometimes people have to take up authority "just because".

Why should we be able to. I believe to be killed as a result of the court of law is an outrage and should be stopped in continuas countries.

What? I don't think that made any sense.

America crated it and most likely America will ban iut, like usual.

America didn't create it, capital punishment had been around millennia before America had been founded.

[Jamie!]

I'm both for and against it. Imagine the uproar though if they executed an innocent person though?

[FlyingJesus]

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.