Bring back the death penalty?

[alexxxxx]

it's been proved it doesn't even work as a deterrent plus it's proven to be REALLY expensive as well for some reason... so not really worth it imo.

and killing people is wrong. doesn't matter if they killed first, it's still wrong.

[Samishlol]

No it shouldn't be brought back. It's wrong to kill someone even though they may have done worse.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I'd rather the state pay a few thousand in cash to rid the world of these people than have them let out after their 'life' sentence which usually lasts around 5 years then when they are out again they murder again/commit more crimes which costs the state even more. You take a life, you have yours taken - very simple and couldn't be more fair.

[GommeInc]

Lets keep them in a prison for all them years then, yes they've commited a really serious crime, he'll be in there for about 30 years? He's already a old man, he's going to die soon.. But it's just a waste, he's a sick man he should be killed.

Oh wow, he's a sick man who should be shot to put him out of his misery. He isn't a dog Teach him he's done wrong by making him experience horrid conditions, not cutting him short like he's not done anything wrong.

I'd rather they shrunk prison cells for "life" sentenced people (life as in, their whole life, not what is currently considered life), and give them a poor quality of life. What would killing them do? Teach them nothing, cost alot, teach others nothing and so on. At least locking people up looks bad to other people, because they know suffering to some degree is involved, not no suffering or lessons learnt, as you get with the death sentence (among of things). It's not about removing someone for something, it should be about preventing others from doing something too.

[Arch]

Depends on the crime,
but id still prob say no

[J0SH]

Oh wow, he's a sick man who should be shot to put him out of his misery. He isn't a dog Teach him he's done wrong by making him experience horrid conditions, not cutting him short like he's not done anything wrong.

I'd rather they shrunk prison cells for "life" sentenced people (life as in, their whole life, not what is currently considered life), and give them a poor quality of life. What would killing them do? Teach them nothing, cost alot, teach others nothing and so on. At least locking people up looks bad to other people, because they know suffering to some degree is involved, not no suffering or lessons learnt, as you get with the death sentence (among of things). It's not about removing someone for something, it should be about preventing others from doing something too.

Horrid conditions? He gets to sleep, watch TV etc all day, I wouldn't call that horrid.

[GommeInc]

Horrid conditions? He gets to sleep, watch TV etc all day, I wouldn't call that horrid.

Not in current conditions, no. If you've readmy responses to these threads before, I support worse prison sentences and enviroments - no TV.

[J0SH]

If he doesn't have TV he'll still have books to read and people to talk to etc. I witnessed a stabbing and the guy who commited the stabbing showed up in court with a navy suit and everything, they deffinately get treated better than we think. Why do you think when people get put into prison, they do more crimes to go back in?

[GommeInc]

Exactly, the system needs to become horrific and miserable, to stop people re-commiting,

[luce]

No it shouldn't, long periods in prison is much worse than just being killed as the criminal suffers for a smaller amount of time. If the death penalty was to be used then I think it should be for dangers to society and only done on solid evidence as there are always wrongful convictions (birmingham 6) and if someone was killed for a crime they didn't commit, and then their innocence was discovered there would be hell up.

But that wouldn't happen becuase if people knew they were going to die for commiting a crime they wouldn't do it. The death penalty is in place as a deterrant more then a punishment. It is used if it has to be. Alot of people commit these crimes in hope they don't get cought but if they do owell a couple of months is a coushy cell. It would completely slash all crime rates. Therefor people wouldn't wrongly be killed becuase the amount of evidence you need to acutally scentance someone to death is monumental. So like you have people wrongly going to jail now that would be stopped aswell.

Sorry i just read back on the thread and everyone is like "people would be kille for nothing" it's not the 19th centry anymore people the days of McCarthyism and witchcraft trials are well are truly over the death penalty will birng order and structure to a very week and currupt system

Ill be back after school *runs for bus*