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I think it should be allowed. But only if people are 100% sure that the person is guilty.
I know it won't bring back the people they killed, but it will make it so that no one else can be hurt. Also I would rather not be spending money on jails so that murderers can stay alive :/

i'm all for the death penalty
if they are going to spend the rest of their lives in jail, and they are absolutely proven without a doubt they did it, why should they get the luxary of living.
its wasting taxes letting them live like that.
they ******** up in this life, so kill them and see if they do better in the next one. if not, kill them again so at least its not wasting money.

Finally someone on my side. mrgreen

And I have one thing to add to your points.

Letting them rot in jail is helping how exctly? Even if the prisoners wroked, they'd still end up costing more than they make probably. Why should a rapist or a murderer get the rights of everyone else? They aren't everyone else.

Did you ever watch the show Penn & Teller bull----?
They had a segment about the death penalty. They were against it, but from the heart wrenching story of one father(1) I leaned (a little) towards "For" the death penalaty. If someone asks to be "put down" then I guess it should be allowed, even if it is against my faith. If the person believes that they cannot stop murdering/raping etc. and gives consent, I say "Ok". But there will always be controversy over this, there will always be abuse of this.

Murder a murderer and become a murderer yourself. It's such a harsh topic, circling morals and rarely ever reaching a mutual answer.

Peolple who are sentenced to life in prison, and the judge has a clear view that the person did commit the crime - I think - should be put down, with consent of course. [X:] The prisons of America are overpopulated and so are psych wards. We don't want to hurt people, but overpopulating a dirty prison, with low supplies, is extremely incredulous. (I guess this leads to a discussion on 'Why is America Filled With Crime?')

(1) The Father's Story [don't read if easily - um - sickened...]
A man's daughter (young, 5-9) was having a sleepover and went downstairs to get her friends some snacks, when she came back her friends were tied up and a man was standing over them - he threatened death with a knife and stole the father's daughter and raped, then murdered her. The family found out the man was on parol - but he did this a handful of times earlier. [/end]

It's either stick that man in jail because he did this numerous times, not give him parol or sentence him to death because he keeps doing it over and over again. Not let this man near children. Keep them safe. He's killed a daughter, scarred a family and those other girls who were her friends.

The shows on television these days depict murder scenes, the trail leading up to the murder scene, and thereafter. (Ever watch "Snapped"? Whoa... o_o) The women plan out their moves, they know what they are doing. Most of the time, yes, the man did wrong - but don't go killing the guy! (Sometimes the women are guilty of being wrong, too. I'm not taking sides here.) But pleading insanity I think should only be on the mentally ill, not the case of "Oh, I just went crazy for a couple minutes/hours." And some people are incredibly great actors/acresses. A woman took a stand, and everyone believed her act until she snapped in court and they put her away. And in law class I learned some important facts that people aren't aware of most of the time, but still - killing is killing. And I'm not for "a life for a life", but sometimes the greater good principle takes over me and then there's the people who scream with picket signs "It's our tax money" and I just want to holler back "Most of it's going to war, so that's also killing people!"

Me personally, I am against the death penalty because, first off what would i gain from the murderer's death. Absolutely nothing, the way i see it if my loved one was murdered I think that the murderer should be given several life sentences (1 life sentence is 25 yrs) several of those and should rott in a prison like angolia and stuff like that, prisons who dont cater to the needs of prisoners. I think he should be allowed to live as long as possible in prison. Because prisoners in most cases do not get visiting privelages so if he/she had family they wouldnt beable to visit so they would have to sit in prison away from there family for along time, so im against the death sentence make them pay severely put them in prison for the rest of their life.

With the current procedures and practices in places with the death penalty, it actually costs more to have a criminal executed.


Well thats hardly eye for an eye. A rapist is not feeling rape by being killed. If anything the rapist is being done an injustice.

I'm not going to bother pointing out moral issues I have with the death penalty and issues of human rights, as they've probably been repeated many times already in this thread; needless to say I am strongly opposed to it.
The only problem we have without it is the coruption in the court system regardless. In Canada, life in prison could mean three years and probation. In order to please every one and give criminals due (but not rights-violating) punishment, the whole system should be re-evaluated.

thats sick.