The Death Penalty

[Red Light District]

Next week I'm in a debate concerning the Death penalty. I was assigned the Pro side of the argument. I'm having trouble coming up with reasons it should still exist. What is your opinion on corporal punishment? Why or why shouldn't it be utilized?

[Comrade Tool]

It's barbaric and I don't even know if it deters others from killing people. The idea of justice itself just seems like revenge from society.

[Strifer Farhaven]

An eye for an eye I say. I know I'm not going to go kill somone in Texas mostly because I don't feel like dieing. I wouldn't kill anyone, but if I absolutely felt I had to I wouldn't do it somewhere that had the death penalty instated.

[ll evanesce ll]

Some people of crime say they'd rather die than stay in prison. So I guess it depends.

[logan the god of candy]

three million bullets is cheaper than the three million meals we dish out a day to people in prisons in America.

we save money, get rid of criminals, we have fun killing people....good stuff.

[Amelia Hood]

If you're talking about the US legal system then don't go for the cost angle. I watched a debate recently about this topic and (apparently) the cost of appeals and the legal proceedings that go on with a death penalty put its overall cost above life imprisonment.

Of course, I could be wrong. Could somebody clarify if this is really the case?

[I got bored one day]

It permanently deletes a problematic person. It also would solve population control issues in metros known for crime.

[I got bored one day]

Death and Misery

It permanently deletes a problematic person. It also would solve population control issues in metros known for crime.

If the death penalty is instituted more often it may erase the fear of death culture we currently have, giving more realistic views on the value of the individual.

[Stygian Soleil]

Amelia Hood

If you're talking about the US legal system then don't go for the cost angle. I watched a debate recently about this topic and (apparently) the cost of appeals and the legal proceedings that go on with a death penalty put its overall cost above life imprisonment.

Of course, I could be wrong. Could somebody clarify if this is really the case?

That's correct.

[Stiffy777]

As someone said you really should look up the pricing that goes to jails.

School at getting millions of dollars in cut backs but we are adding money to jail systems to keep the prisoners safe and well fed. We waste so much money in the jail systems because we are housing serial(sp?) killers, that if the behave well, get to go free most the time and go killing again.

I feel if you murder someone your punishiment should be the same, death.
Why should they get the chance to live after they took someone else's life?

Jails should be for small time criminals like burgerly, and theft.

[Stygian Soleil]

Stiffy777

As someone said you really should look up the pricing that goes to jails.

School at getting millions of dollars in cut backs but we are adding money to jail systems to keep the prisoners safe and well fed. We waste so much money in the jail systems because we are housing serial(sp?) killers, that if the behave well, get to go free most the time and go killing again.

I feel if you murder someone your punishiment should be the same, death.
Why should they get the chance to live after they took someone else's life?

Jails should be for small time criminals like burgerly, and theft.

Way to miss the part where the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison.

[Stiffy777]

Stygian Soleil

Stiffy777

As someone said you really should look up the pricing that goes to jails.

School at getting millions of dollars in cut backs but we are adding money to jail systems to keep the prisoners safe and well fed. We waste so much money in the jail systems because we are housing serial(sp?) killers, that if the behave well, get to go free most the time and go killing again.

I feel if you murder someone your punishiment should be the same, death.
Why should they get the chance to live after they took someone else's life?

Jails should be for small time criminals like burgerly, and theft.

Way to miss the part where the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison.

How?
Prisons have to give out three square meals every single day. They suply weights for exercise and any gym equiment that is asked for.
I really don't see how the death penalty could cost more.
I have had this debate already and we compared the prices and jails get way more money then they really need.
I think if we really fixed the death penalty so that it happens after conviction, and its just something simple like ejection of a posin or something easy it should not cost more in my opinion.

[Stygian Soleil]

Stiffy777

How?

Miles and miles of red tape, that's how. Appeals, more appeals, reviews, legal fees, state sanctions. You name it. Look it up. The facts are there.

[Amelia Hood]

Stiffy777

Stygian Soleil

Stiffy777

As someone said you really should look up the pricing that goes to jails.

School at getting millions of dollars in cut backs but we are adding money to jail systems to keep the prisoners safe and well fed. We waste so much money in the jail systems because we are housing serial(sp?) killers, that if the behave well, get to go free most the time and go killing again.

I feel if you murder someone your punishiment should be the same, death.
Why should they get the chance to live after they took someone else's life?

Jails should be for small time criminals like burgerly, and theft.

Way to miss the part where the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison.

How?
Prisons have to give out three square meals every single day. They suply weights for exercise and any gym equiment that is asked for.
I really don't see how the death penalty could cost more.
I have had this debate already and we compared the prices and jails get way more money then they really need.
I think if we really fixed the death penalty so that it happens after conviction, and its just something simple like ejection of a posin or something easy it should not cost more in my opinion.

I don't think the whole right-after-conviction think would play to the pro-side's benefit in a debate. Even if there aren't many, some people go through the appeals process for years and eventually are exonerated based on new evidence, alternate confessions, second looks at the evidence, or news of jury misconduct. Anything that could block a convicted person from this chance will do poorly because there is no better argument against the death penalty, in any country, than from the possibility that the state may murder an innocent person.

[I got bored one day]

Death and Misery

Death and Misery

It permanently deletes a problematic person. It also would solve population control issues in metros known for crime.

If the death penalty is instituted more often it may erase the fear of death culture we currently have, giving more realistic views on the value of the individual.

The death penalty also allows for a more steamlined justice system, and allows for death of criminals to become commonplace thus not reported. Perhaps more uplifting events will become more interesting in regards to the grim reality thus improving the media.