Do You Support the Death Penalty

[FireRescueMedic11]

Do you support the Death Penalty?

What Crimes do you think Constitute the Death Penalty?

[baronofbeer]

Any violent crime where innocent lives are put in danger.

[car2back]

1- Yes

2- It should be an option to the State for any violent or heinous crime. (I.E. murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, rape, any sexual assault, etc.)

[LordJ]

As most people I think, it depends on circumstances..

[car2back]

Originally Posted by LordJ

As most people I think, it depends on circumstances..

exactly... every case is unique.

[justinnmr]

Yes.

It depends on the circumstances but should be considered in murder, attempted murder, and rape cases.

[zz0468]

For the typical capital crime, no. It takes far too long, and is far too expensive to implement. Life without parole is probably a harsher punishment anyway. As a deterrent, it's not cost effective. As a punishment, the time it takes is too painful for the families of the victims.

However, every now and then, some particularly heinous monster comes along, and the most healing thing for the victims families is to just make that monster get wiped from the face of the earth. The death penalty should be reserved for those cases.

[FireRescueMedic11]

I belive what is done to the victim should be done to the suspect when convicted and sentenced to death, let the message spread to people that crime is taken very seriously and garbage needs to be cleaned off our streets

What make a murder case diffrent then another case that receives the death penalty?

[902]

Originally Posted by LordJ

As most people I think, it depends on circumstances..

I agree, as well.

[Markb]

Originally Posted by zz0468

For the typical capital crime, no. It takes far too long, and is far too expensive to implement. Life without parole is probably a harsher punishment anyway. As a deterrent, it's not cost effective. As a punishment, the time it takes is too painful for the families of the victims.

However, every now and then, some particularly heinous monster comes along, and the most healing thing for the victims families is to just make that monster get wiped from the face of the earth. The death penalty should be reserved for those cases.

I would be curious to see the actual costs. It would seem to me that a firing squad out behind the courthouse would be a lot cheaper than paying room and board for the rest of an inmate's life!!!

[FireRescueMedic11]

Originally Posted by Markb

I would be curious to see the actual costs. It would seem to me that a firing squad out behind the courthouse would be a lot cheaper than paying room and board for the rest of an inmate's life!!!

I belive the same, ACLU makes it hard for criminals to be tried at a normal level of justice,
we need to bring back public punishment, To many criminals are getting off with slaps on the hands lately,

if you are caught red handed, than you are guilty, case closed

[landonjensen]

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[kd7rto]

I seldom agree with liberals, but on this issue, the position of the conservatives just doesn't make sense. Killing people, to send the message that it is wrong to kill people, is absurd.

[RayK]

I think we should bring back public hanging !

[EJB]

Originally Posted by Markb

I would be curious to see the actual costs. It would seem to me that a firing squad out behind the courthouse would be a lot cheaper than paying room and board for the rest of an inmate's life!!!

Did you ever consider the costs that follow:

Endless appeals from death row imates, who pays for their lawyers, court costs, time, court saleries, etc. I have read (dont remember where) that it costs far more to have prisoners on death row than in jail.

Does your justice system ever make mistakes?
It happens in a society where justice is for the rich.

Besides the American crime rate is probably much higher(I am sure some of you can play with numbers or look it up) than the majority of the western democracies, most of whom have removed the death penalty from the law books many years ago. It does nothing to stop crime.
So no, no death penalty is my vote

[scannerpro]

I support it however.

1) They should have a slow painful death, depending on what they did
2) The should 100% make sure they are killing the right person cause somtimes they get the wrong people and throw them in jail and come to find out by DNA they did not do anything they got the wrong person.

I hope I put this in the right terms and did not offend anyone.

[madnachos]

I think some people deserve to die for their actions, but I don't support the death penalty since the government cant be trusted to kill the correct person 100% of the time. So, I agree with the concept, I just don't think our current legal system does enough to ensure that innocent people don't get put to death.

[mciupa]

No , mistakes have been made in the past.

[madnachos]

Originally Posted by FireRescueMedic11

I belive the same, ACLU makes it hard for criminals to be tried at a normal level of justice,
we need to bring back public punishment, To many criminals are getting off with slaps on the hands lately,

Too many criminals are getting off with slaps on the wrist since we waste all of our resources.The 'war' on drugs has filled our jails and crippled our legal system...no room, time, or money to deal with real criminals anymore. I would rather have my tax dollars spent keeping child molesters and murderers in prison than some young kid that got busted with some grass...we need to get our priorities straight. Wanna harm yourself? Go for it. Wanna ham someone else? You need to be put away.

[FireRescueMedic11]

Originally Posted by madnachos

Too many criminals are getting off with slaps on the wrist since we waste all of our resources.The 'war' on drugs has filled our jails and crippled our legal system...no room, time, or money to deal with real criminals anymore. I would rather have my tax dollars spent keeping child molesters and murderers in prison than some young kid that got busted with some grass...we need to get our priorities straight. Wanna harm yourself? Go for it. Wanna ham someone else? You need to be put away.

I agree with the above statement 100%.
We spend so much money on the war in other countries, we need to start spending money on the War at Home, we are Plauged with Poverty, Homelessness, Murder, Child Rape, Sensless acts of vilonce, school shootings, and much much more,
but president Bush seems to have our priorities ass backwards.
In light of the VT shootings, the recent mall shooting, school shootings,
He still finds it nessacery to sink another $100 billion into a lost cause in iraq,
if the people over there want to kill themselfs and car bomb eachother, then so be it,

WE NEED TO FIGHT THE WAR AT HOME!