Death Penalty or Life in Prison

[duroz]

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.

                        


                   

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[falcon9]

God instituted the death penalty in the old testament to deter men from willfully taking people's lives.

This seems like another one of those faith-based religious beliefs which are unsupported by anything other than more faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly unsupported by evidence.

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
--– Richard Dawkins

[ben50]

God is the judge, so I don't think we should sentence people to death.

[falcon9]

God is the judge, so I don't think we should sentence people to death.

This seems like another one of those faith-based religious beliefs which are unsupported by anything other than more faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly unsupported by evidence.

[duroz]

This seems like another one of those faith-based religious beliefs which are unsupported by anything other than more faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly unsupported by evidence.

    ...which are supported by faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly un.........

AAAAAAHHHH!!!

Stop! Quit going around and around so fast!

Stop!

Please stop and let me off the ride ......I'm gonna be sick.....

Heeeyyyy!!!......oh man, I really gotta get off of this thing NOW!

Who's operating this stupid ride anyway??



Oh, there he.......

dang that guy looks familiar for some reason.....I can't figure out why though....

[falcon9]

{"... g-d is the judge ..."}

This seems like another one of those faith-based religious beliefs which are unsupported by anything other than more faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly unsupported by evidence.

   ...which are supported by faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly un.........

AAAAAAHHHH!!!

Stop! Quit going around and around so fast!

Stop!

Please stop and let me off the ride ......I'm gonna be sick.....

Heeeyyyy!!!......oh man, I really gotta get off of this thing NOW!

Who's operating this stupid ride anyway??



Oh, there he.......

dang that guy looks familiar for some reason.....I can't figure out why though....

[duroz]

{"... g-d is the judge ..."}

This seems like another one of those faith-based religious beliefs which are unsupported by anything other than more faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly unsupported by evidence.

   ...which are supported by faith-based religious beliefs which are circularly un.........

AAAAAAHHHH!!!   Stop! Quit going around and around so fast!
Stop! Please stop and let me off the ride ......I'm gonna be sick.....
Heeeyyyy!!!......oh man, I really gotta get off of this thing NOW!

Who's operating this stupid ride anyway??



Oh, there he.......

dang that guy looks familiar for some reason.....I can't figure out why though....

ohhh....Really - is THAT who it is???.......
Oh that's just GREAT - I don't feel very safe with his clumsy a** operating this thing.......

[inertia4]

I believe that people caught in the act of murder should not receive a trial. I am not a major fan of the death penalty only because there are some innocent people that actually get put to death. But in the statement I just made, if you're caught in the act, then why not. It is cheaper to put those people to death then to pay for their stay in prison.

[sigmapi1501]

I believe that people caught in the act of murder should not receive a trial. 

You probably didn't need to continue after this sentence.

[cathy37]

Life in prison.  Then they have the rest of their life to think about what they have done.

[laurindat]

It depends on how bad the crime was and their psychological state.. I do not believe in the whole "eye for an eye" idea, because then everyone goes blind, but I do favor the death penalty. We won't be wasting our tax dollars on keeping those criminals in prison. Plus, life sentence means they're going to be taking up space in jail where some other criminal could be for a shorter period.

Sometimes, giving someone life is even worse than death since they'll have to suffer with the guilt of the crime. However, if they're mentally ill or don't have the right mindset/morals/conscience, then life imprisonment is a basically useless.

[constance312003]

I believe in the death penalty.   It is a hard thing and I would not  like to be the person who is in charge

[vickysue]

I am not sure i believe in the death penalty, but on the otherhand why should they get to spend the rest of their days behind bars with the best of health care, a tv and 3 squares a day, plus all the other things they get. They should be put in a cell with nothing except their own company. 24 hours a day to think about what they have done.

[Andrew09]

If you killed an innocent person (like George Zimmerman) for no reason, I think you deserve the death penalty.

[Tresbn00]

Why can't we all just get along? When did we become Judge, Jury, and executioners?  I think that the people that were directly affected by a murder should be the one's that decide the fate of the murderer's future.  I think that everyone should have due process of law through an unbiased law system but the final decision, if found completely guilty, should rest in the hands of the survivors/families most closely affected.  I don't think that mental illness/insanity/incapacity should be an allowable defense because who is to say that the affliction will ever go away?