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I'm very eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I think if you kill someone you deserve the same fate. It's really that simple.

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Revenge does solve things for some people. For me revenge gives me peace of mind. That is the only type of peace that is achievable. Revenge doesn't solve anything for you, but it does for me.

It is correcting to kill, because it gets rid of the treat. And also achieves some sort of justice for the victim/victim family.

Once again, it was used for demonstration purposes. That one the grand sceme it doesn't matter. I wasn't using it as a statistic. Also, if I am using a real statistic, you'd probably see me link to the source. Unless I forget. If less people are commiting crimes, less innocent people will be killed. By killing everyone who has life sentence/death sentence we discourage crime, therefore lowering the people who commit crimes.

Murder's don't get parol, as far as I know. I wouldn't feel safe if they did. If everyone is convinced that they did it, who would relook at their case? Most cops/CSI/anyone involved in their case are too busy with new cases because of the high crime rate. They don't have time. The only way is if another murder/rape happened in the exact way, they'd relook at the file for inconsitency's and if none appeared, they probably wouldn't even open the case up again.

Yet again. I explain that that is you personally. Stealing back the ipod would do something for me. Of course I wouldn't steal the ipod back, I'd take something else. I hate ipods. Cheap overpriced pieces of crap.

Using that logic we'd have a dozens of prisoners running around on the street. If someone is truely guilty I trust that they will go to jail, and if they don't then they still deserve to die. Period. Killing a killer is different than killing for no reason.

I wrote an essay on this subject.

I believe that the death penalty should be applied on cases with multiple murders; not for one murder (wether intentional or not), or any lesser crime. I think that if that person has had multiple offenses or committed an act of terrorism or the such, then it should be applied.

I've heard of the dp being applied to a rape case. I don't think that's right; I think they should stay in jail for 15+ years.

I also think that if the dp was applied more often, people would be discouraged to commit crimes worthy of capital punishment.

But I live in Canada, where I believe it's currently abolished. So. -shrug-

this is always a touchy topic. i couldn't willfully hurt another much less put them to death. i used to be a firm believer in the death penalty, but i once had a lot of anger, i've since learned to forgive.

the way i see it, if someone takes another persons life there is a reason (crime of passion or self defense) or the person is mentally ill and in either case death just isn't the answer. There is also the possibility that this person is nothing more than a natural born killer, there is no remorse, there is no feeling - nothing exists for this person beyond the malicious intent to cause other people pain and suffering. For me this falls under the category of mental illness, even though they may seem normal in every other way and may even possess a relatively high IQ.

i've asked myself what i would do if someone murdered my child and for the sake of argument we'll assume it is in the worst way imaginable - would i wish the person harm? initially yes, probably
would i act upon that urge myself? i hope not
would i want them put to death? no
could i forgive them? i honestly hope so - forgiveness isn't a gift you give to that person, although that may likely be a by-product (in that persons eyes anyway) ... it is a gift you give to yourself. anger & hatred are poison and they eat away at you. time spent in this mortal coil is brief. when death is dealt to those tainted by a lifetime of malicious intent, there will be suffering enough.

@Band4ever: I never said that if somebody important to me got murderered I'd be like "oh well that sucks" and I wouldn't mind if the person stayed out on the street. In fact, I said quite the opposite. If someone close to me got murderered, I'd be devasted, and I'd want the murderer to be punished severly (I believe I've said this several times and I'm about sick of saying it so people stop arguing that), I just wouldn't want him to be put to death. Putting the murderer to death wouldn't give me any type of closure whatsoever. Especially if he dies before he answers the question, "Why?" I wouldn't want revenge either, because to me, revenge is childish. If they were locked up, I would have peace of mind that they couldn't murder anyone else.

@Ty: I agree with the mental illness. A lot of criminals are sociopaths and have anti-social personality disorder. People are still trying to figure how to cure it but it's going to take time, and if we kill off every prisoner that has this disorder how can we lern anything from it or how to stop future killers?

I didn't say that was what you would say exactly. If you read my exact entry again. I said I was using an example. I didn't mean that is what you would actually say.

But if you feel more comfortable with a murderer who killed a close family member still on the street free to kill again. That's fine. But the majority don't feel that way.

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