Who's For The Death Penalty...........

[radkin]

However in this day and age, what with DNA and all that kind of stuff, the likelihood of wrongful executions is much lower than in the past

True but there will always be mistakes and probably more than the mistakes is all the corruption that goes on

 

[critikaldesignz]

California's government spends more money on keeping prisoners in prison (ie: providing them food, health care) than on education.

 

[radkin]

You only have to look at that bloke over here that spent I think it was 25 years in prision because the police forced him into signing a confession, and you cant get anymore concrete than a confession, so he would've been executed for something he didn't do (it was murder by the way)

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

You only have to look at that bloke over here that spent I think it was 25 years in prision because the police forced him into signing a confession, and you cant get anymore concrete than a confession, so he would've been executed for something he didn't do (it was murder by the way)

Forensics are just as - if not more - concrete than a confession. And I don't mean one piece, I'm talking about the whole thing.

 

[radkin]

Forensics are just as - if not more - concrete than a confession. And I don't mean one piece, I'm talking about the whole thing.

ok granted, but If the death penalty was brought back they would execute on the strength of a confession

 

[bigmack]

well they should give them 2 choices. either the death penalty, or go to war for them. then they can kill as many more people as they want.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

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No offence, but that's retarded.

 

[S O F I]

What good does capital punishment do? This board always talks about how suicide is a cowardice-act and people do it because it's an easy way out of things. If the criminal is murdered, then who's the coward and who gets the easy way out? If some psycho killed my 10 year old daughter, I'd rather have the law allow me to beat him to a pulp, then let him rot in prison till he dies on his own.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

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But then - even if you refused the prisoner good living conditions - it would cost the country millions in court cases brought by Human Rights courts & shit.

 

[yak pac fatal]

well they should give them 2 choices. either the death penalty, or go to war for them. then they can kill as many more people as they want.

never give a syko a gun to help u kill he mite kill u

 

[_carmi]

i'm against it. make the killer suffer in prison.

 

[AmerikazMost]

The death penalty is neither economical nor a deterrent. I did a debate on this once. It costs more for the whole death penalty process than a life sentence trial plus keeping him alive in prison for 40 years. Also, crimes that could call for the death penalty decreased by like 30% after Massachusetts got rid of it. Its presence doesn't really mean anything.

And then there are the people on death row who are actually innocent. Since its reinstatement, Pennsylvania has let more people off death row than it has executed. There was a study by Yale or Harvard that said as many as 50% of all death row inmates who still claim they didn't do it actually didn't do it.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

Nobody here ever claimed it was a deterrent .

And of course it isn't economical in America - nothing is.

Elsewhere, logic could be applied.

 

[AmerikazMost]

Elsewhere, logic could be applied.

yeah, good luck with that one

 

[S O F I]

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But then - even if you refused the prisoner good living conditions - it would cost the country millions in court cases brought by Human Rights courts & shit.

I could care less about the economical side of it.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

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I think you'd have a different opinion when you realized that your pursuit of justice for a single family member has led to some of your surviving being unemployed/homeless/ill etc.

 

[S O F I]

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I think you'd have a different opinion when you realized that your pursuit of justice for a single family member has led to some of your surviving being unemployed/homeless/ill etc.

America has a something something trillion budget. A couple of millions is pennies. Besides, I don't plan to work here, anyways. I'ma finish up college here and head to Europe.

 

[Jokerman]

We the people have more important things to do with our hard-earned tax dollars than feed, clothe, house, guard, and provide flat-panel plasma TVs for the most vicious killers, child rapists, and the like ad infinitum.

It costs more to keep someone in prison for a year than it would to send a deserving young person to virtually any college in the nation for the same length of time. However, executing a criminal needn't cost more than a few dollars for rope, which is easily reusable.

The issue is with the justice system and not the death penalty.

 

[Sebastian]

The death penalty is neither economical nor a deterrent. I did a debate on this once. It costs more for the whole death penalty process than a life sentence trial plus keeping him alive in prison for 40 years. Also, crimes that could call for the death penalty decreased by like 30% after Massachusetts got rid of it. Its presence doesn't really mean anything.
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oh, really?

 

[k69atie]

You only have to look at that bloke over here that spent I think it was 25 years in prision because the police forced him into signing a confession, and you cant get anymore concrete than a confession, so he would've been executed for something he didn't do (it was murder by the way)

Wasn't he only 9 years old when he signed it? he wouldn't have been executed at that age!!!

But I can see your point.

I am unsure as to what i think, in some ways i am for the death penalty, but then in others i think that there will always be errors somewhere along the line where an innocent person is killed for someone elses crime.