Benefits with a death penalty? (1 Viewer)

[elmberg]

If a very brutal or psychologicly brutal crime were committed - then of course would I want the person who did it to get a hard sentence.
But never a death sentence!
I mean, why should you legalise murdering a person? What can you learn from that? Yes, the victim (and family) would maybe get closure, or revenge or whatever they need - but what does everyone else learn: "Okay, if someone murders my friend then he/she should get murdered to? " Is that really a reasonable way to think? Isn't it the government supposes to prevent crime - not prevent crime by committing a crime?
I do believe that a lot of people get the message: if you commit this sort of crime, then you will get murdered to - so don’t do it. But, is it really the right way to prevent crime? Why can't you focus on creating a prison that is as efficient as we'd all like them to be? If it was a fact that we finally develop a well-functioning prison and where we know that it really is a punishment to sit in jail, when a life sentence is a life sentence - would we then want the death penalty?
This is what I believe today, I don't know what I will believe when someone I know becomes the victim, but I'll never believe in "the good" of death sentence.

 

[Iriemon]

If a very brutal or psychologicly brutal crime were committed - then of course would I want the person who did it to get a hard sentence.
But never a death sentence!
I mean, why should you legalise murdering a person? What can you learn from that? Yes, the victim (and family) would maybe get closure, or revenge or whatever they need - but what does everyone else learn: "Okay, if someone murders my friend then he/she should get murdered to? " Is that really a reasonable way to think? Isn't it the government supposes to prevent crime - not prevent crime by committing a crime?
I do believe that a lot of people get the message: if you commit this sort of crime, then you will get murdered to - so don’t do it. But, is it really the right way to prevent crime? Why can't you focus on creating a prison that is as efficient as we'd all like them to be? If it was a fact that we finally develop a well-functioning prison and where we know that it really is a punishment to sit in jail, when a life sentence is a life sentence - would we then want the death penalty?
This is what I believe today, I don't know what I will believe when someone I know becomes the victim, but I'll never believe in "the good" of death sentence.

I don't necessarily agree with your argument. Society isn't murdering someone with capital punishment any more than society is kidnapping somone by throwing them in jail. Murder is the unjustified taking of another life.

I have issues with the death penalty, but more for the far from perfect judicial process by which people are condemned.

 

[jujuman13]

I disagree with the Death Penalty because if there were even one instance where a person has been put to death and has subsequently been found to be innocent, then in effect the State has murdered that person.
As the State is governed by those we elect, it means that indirectly I have also murdered someone, frankly I do not care to that on my conscience.

What I would do with those who are certainly guilty is to imprison them in solitary confinement for life.

If it were widely known that this would be an automatic sentence for those found guilty of murder, I think perhaps the murder rate might reduce.

I could be wrong as most people who commit murder tend to do it on the spur of the moment.

 

[agaglio]

What I would do with those who are certainly guilty is to imprison them in solitary confinement for life.

so you'd rather torture them than kill them?

 

[stildizzy]

I am sick of paying $40,000 a year to keep them locked up. Harvest their organs, the Chinese do. Let them do ONE good thing for society.

 

[el_joven]

I don't necessarily agree with your argument. Society isn't murdering someone with capital punishment any more than society is kidnapping somone by throwing them in jail. Murder is the unjustified taking of another life.

I have issues with the death penalty, but more for the far from perfect judicial process by which people are condemned.

Thats a new way to deny the death penalty=murder argument....redefine murder

 

[Cephus]

Society cannot *MURDER* anyone, murder is a legal term defined as killing that is not sanctioned by law. Even if, by some chance, a completely innocent person was ever put to death by the legal death penalty, it wouldn't be murder, it would be a mistake.

Jeez, I am so sick and tired of people ***-raping the English language to make overly-emotional but utterly nonsensical points.