Death Penalty or Life in Prison

[Cuppycake]

Death Penalty for the win.
"A murderer was captured this morning and tried today.
GUILTY. Sentence: Death.
Execution: Tonight at 6:00 all net all channels."

[Cuppycake]

The problem with the death penalty is that innocent people have been slaughtered by the state because of police incompetence or false testimonies. You cannot bring those people back. The death penalty is a forever penalty. All is lost. Never to return. Tell the people who have a family member who was executed for a crime they did not commit and then the real truth comes out about the death penalty. I hate the horrors that have been inflicted on innocent people in this society by those who minds and hearts are twisted. I have felt my own rage at the torments I have seen and known in my own life but I still don't know what the answer is, and everything my anger demands is too cruel.

Honestly it is worth it in the long run. Some times there must be casualties for the greater good.

[stretch1967]

It all depends upon the crime. Some of the murderers get off free. If you take a life they should take yours. If its accidental that is a different story.

[jwallbank]

I used to be a proponent of the Death Penalty but, have changed in recent years, no not flipflopped!! From what I see is that there are too many people getting the Death penalty and years later they are being set loose because DNA has proved them inocent. I believe live in prison without parole is more of a punishment, if life really means life!!I think the justice system is now not caring about getting to the truth, rather getting the win. I know inprisioning a person for life costs a great deal but, would rather not see an inocent man or woman die for acts they did not commit.

[sigmapi1501]

The problem with the death penalty is that innocent people have been slaughtered by the state because of police incompetence or false testimonies. You cannot bring those people back. The death penalty is a forever penalty. All is lost. Never to return. Tell the people who have a family member who was executed for a crime they did not commit and then the real truth comes out about the death penalty. I hate the horrors that have been inflicted on innocent people in this society by those who minds and hearts are twisted. I have felt my own rage at the torments I have seen and known in my own life but I still don't know what the answer is, and everything my anger demands is too cruel.

Honestly it is worth it in the long run. Some times there must be casualties for the greater good.

Stop talking please.   That is either spoken from a place that has no respect for human life or willful idiocy.

Our system is SUPPOSED to be based on the "I'd rather see one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man is convicted" philosophy. You say just kill em all and ask questions later.  How very third world of you.  The worst part is you had to hit 'post'. It's not like something this moronic just slipped out of your mouth. THINK.

[bmichielson]

I am all for the death penalty...if you kill someone we should have the right to kill you back!!

[sigmapi1501]

I am all for the death penalty...if you kill someone we should have the right to kill you back!!

So, what's the penalty for a rapist?

[Nylaaluwolf]

I believe if you want the death penalty on someone who has wronged you for something drastic enough to deserve the death penalty then you yourself must kill that person by a humane way. IF you can do it then fine there is your death penalty. If not then life behind bars is enough punishment.

[kingozzy]

Its an expensive alternative for all the tax payers

[oonamas]

Then again it is your tax dollars keeping a convicted murderer alive.

But it's so much more expensive to go through the process of actually putting someone to death due to the judicial process which, really, everyone rightly deserves to the fullest extent in order to make sure innocent people aren't put to death will nilly.

Besides this, I find the death penalty a bit barbaric also, and life in prison is a much more prolonged miserable existence. I agree that conditions in prisons could be a lot worse though.

[healthfreedom]

God instituted the death penalty in the old testament to deter men from willfully taking people's lives. The death penalty should be used when an individual is clearly guilty of murder.

[HuffmanFamilyof4]

Yep.  Executing people is rather barbaric.


“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

It depends on the heinousness of the act. All you bleeding heart liberals who weep about executions will quickly change your tune when your loved one is trussed up raped, tortured and slaughtered like pig for no other reason than the person wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone. Once he did it, he found he liked it, and began taking pictures of the corpses, so he he could look at them later and relive the extreme pleasure he felt at the time of the act. He went on to do it 2 more times before caught. His first victim was was my sister. So all you death penalty opposers can get your candles ready to hold your vigil on his execution day, and you will look like the fools that you are.

you think when a person kills another person that isn't barbaric. come on wake up, if it's good enough for the perpatrator to kill someone then why not give what they gave?

[alishalynn]

i think it depends ont eh act i am in favor of death penelty. we are all held responsibe for our acions and it is not far to tax the hard working law abiding citizens to keep a convicted murder alive.

[kewl4reals]

Do you believe that life without parole is a fair alternative?

i think we should abolish the death penalty world wide because even one mistake is too many.

[falcon9]

I'm an advocate for covering them with honey, burying them neck-deep in a red ant hill and walking away.