Capital Punishment

[-sFusion-]

If used correctly then yeah.

[Mentor]

Ok, So you want to pay killers to kill other killers? Giving the state power to murder isnt a particaly good idea in my opinion "/

If everyone is killed for killing someone else, your gona run out of liveing people...

[:dallsgreen]

You can't really be for and against capital punishment, because a country can't just use it every once in a while. I'm against it, I don't think criminals should be killed, why not put them back to work for society? Keep them in jail but make them pay their debt back to society. I'm especially against it because innocent people are killed, there's nothing you can do if they're convicted but atleast don't put them to death. Also as someone mentioned the US didn't start capital punishment, many other countries had capital punishment long before, and many other countries have more severe forms of executions.

[:Hazel]

I'm not sure because there are some scumbags who derserve to be killed off however if someone is wrongly convicted as it has been proved before you have just killed someone innocent which is obviously wrong.

[PhunkySponge]

for it! but only in the right conditions.

LIKE WE SHOULD CUT OFF THERE GENITALS SO THEY CAN'T RAEPE AGAIN?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Ok, So you want to pay killers to kill other killers? Giving the state power to murder isnt a particaly good idea in my opinion "/

If everyone is killed for killing someone else, your gona run out of liveing people...

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 !

[FlyingJesus]

I'm not sure because there are some scumbags who derserve to be killed off however if someone is wrongly convicted as it has been proved before you have just killed someone innocent which is obviously wrong.

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.

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[ReviewDude]

I go by:

Do we **** rapists? Do we burn down the houses of arsonists? Beat down those that assault others?

No. Of course we don't. We're doing exactly what we're preaching against. It is (like someone said earlier) smacking a child for hitting someone else.

Also, again as others have said, there's no way to 100% prove someone did it, and it's far better to spend a few years in prison and get released, than to die.

I'm proud to be British, and proud that we don't practice what is, essentially, institutionalised murder.

EDIT: Stupid filter. I'm sure you can guess what goes there...

[FlyingJesus]

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.

[RedStratocas]

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.

Actually we do have "innocent until proven guilty"

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

It happens much more often than you think. And there is nothing the families can do about it, cant sue, nothing.