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Post by Hunny on Apr 10, 2013 13:17:37 GMT
- POLL: Are you in favor of the death penalty? -
Death penalty 'becoming thing of the past', says Amnesty International
Executions in India, Japan, Pakistan, and Gambia were disappointing regressions, Amnesty notes.
But elsewhere the death penalty was "becoming a thing of the past," secretary-general Salil Shetty said.
The five countries carrying out most executions remain China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the US.READ MORE...I don't know how anyone could support killing people for any reason. And the death penalty is just that, killing people. How utterly horrible and barbaric. But what really bothers me is the hypocrisy of it. For they tell us killing is wrong and then proceed to kill someone. They make an excuse for killing, just as the man they're labeling as "murderer' had his reasons. But the hypocrisy is worse than that, it's the government who will kill you if you kill for yourself, but if you kill for them, they will give you a medal. Killing is wrong folks. It's hideous, it's wrong, and that people support doing it as "punishment" makes me realize just how barbaric the world really is. Anyway. Perhaps you'd like to tell us why killing can be okay when you feel like it? ..and vote in the poll above.
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Post by Big Lin on Apr 10, 2013 19:49:19 GMT
Well, America still has the death penalty as do quite a few other countries still.
How I look on it is as a proportionate punishment for murder.
I disagree with using it for any other kind of crime but when you look at some of the horrific murders that go on how can it be right not to execute those who committed them?
How is it better to keep the likes of Sutcliffe, Huntley, Brady, Ramirez, Pike and so on locked up for ever rather than just hanging them?
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Post by Hunny on Apr 10, 2013 20:18:18 GMT
Well, America still has the death penalty as do quite a few other countries still. How I look on it is as a proportionate punishment for murder. I disagree with using it for any other kind of crime but when you look at some of the horrific murders that go on how can it be right not to execute those who committed them? How is it better to keep the likes of Sutcliffe, Huntley, Brady, Ramirez, Pike and so on locked up for ever rather than just hanging them? Because then we're not murderers too.
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Post by mikemarshall on Apr 10, 2013 21:36:21 GMT
I am opposed to the death penalty but I have never either understood nor agreed with the idea that somehow executing a murderer is morally equivalent to committing the same crime.
Unless one adopts the pacifist. vegan and quietist approach towards evil then it is inevitable that we will at some point have to kill other living creatures - humans or animals.
But (for instance) I simply cannot grasp the mindset that regards the Israeli soldier who executed Eichmann as being remotely on the same degree of moral depravity as the man he hung.
NOr would I be able to consider a public executioner on the same level as the individuals who murder others.
I disapprove of the death penalty but NOT because I believe in a moral equivalence between murder and execution.
To me that is simply an ethically dubious proposition on every level.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 21:41:38 GMT
i agree with Lin; some people are just too evil to be allowed to live in my opinion.
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Post by sadie1263 on Apr 11, 2013 2:43:15 GMT
I just can't say a definitive yes or no......sometimes I think it is a better punishment for them to be locked up for life.....but there are some......that are just so evil.....that a lifetime in prison isn't really a punishment......I'm fairly positive they will just kill in jail.......
It's very easy to say these things when it has not been your loved one that has been brutally murdered........I really believe those are the people that should answer that question.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Apr 11, 2013 4:10:52 GMT
I support the death penalty for capital murders, which comprise about 1 in 100 homicides in the US!
It amazes me that some people maintain that the death penalty is not a deterrent! With this "logic" we could substitute the death penalty with a $50- fine and the capital murder rate would remain unchanged!
There are an aboundance of studies that lump in non death penalty eligible homicides ( 99% of all homicides ) and claim to show that the death penalty is not a deterrent! If a Texas cowboy shots down a card cheat he will never receive the DP because this is not a DP eligible crime! Thus non capital homicides remain undeterred!
The massive increase of serial killers ( capital punishment eligle perpetrators ) at large in the US after the death penalty was challenged and outlawed by the US Supreme Court from 1972 through 1976 shows that the death penalty does deter these death penalty eligible murderers!
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