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Whats confusing is how easily people excuse justify and stand for the slaughter of an unborn child yet get their silkies twisted over the execution of a murderer. I mean...come on...how twisted do you have to be?
Yes...this IS a fun game...isnt it.
When the state is permitted to kill its citizens, then no-one is safe.
Recent high profile executions have resulted in a resurgence of debate about the death penalty. One thing I'm noticing is that, several times now, I have seen a post by someone who has told me in the past that it's wrong to call abortion murder (because abortion is legal) yet calling an execution murder. I do concede that abortion is not legally defined as murder, but then, wouldn't the same be true of the death penalty?
So, what do you think? Is carrying out the death penalty murder? Explain why or why not.
Murder is a legal term for unlawful homicide.
Capital punishment and abortion are both lawful forms of homicide.
Ergo, neither capital punishment nor abortion are murder.
The Constitution specifically allows the state to depreive someone of their life, so long as they are given due process.I think it's a murderer. To me, the government doesn't have the right to kill anybody, unless the person is proven to be a war criminal.
The Constitution specifically allows the state to depreive someone of their life, so long as they are given due process.
That's true....
5th Amendment, which says:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Strange...I just posted this Amendment in another thread...related to another topic.
Gotta love the 222 year old document dictating our morals and laws.
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
The law is the law. You dont have to like it but you cannot simply pretend it isn't there.Gotta love the 222 year old document dictating our morals and laws.
The law is the law. You dont have to like it but you cannot simply pretend it isn't there.
Isn't it technically homicide? That covers a multitude of situations, including the death penalty.Yes it's murder, but most likely only if you're one of the bleeding heart wackos who thinks executing a cold blooded murderer is some how wrong but it's perfectly okay to kill the unborn, who are only guilty of having one or two worthless irresponsible parents who can't figure out what a condom is for, or maybe they are too complicated for stupid people to figure out how to use them.
Like a good liberal... :lol:Yes I can. :lol:
'"Thou shalt not murder". Item 6 Decalogue. Published Moses.
It is.Isn't it technically homicide? That covers a multitude of situations, including the death penalty.
I mentioned this in another thread, but there are actually two types of deterrence; general and specific. General means the punishment deters others from committing the same type of crimes and "specific" meaning it deters the same individual from committing more crime. When used, the DP is a 100% effective specific deterrent.Criminologists' Views on Deterrence and the Death Penalty
"Eighty-eight percent of the country’s top criminologists do not believe the death penalty acts as a deterrent to homicide, according to a new study published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and authored by Professor Michael Radelet, Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Traci Lacock, also at Boulder.
Similarly, 87% of the expert criminologists believe that abolition of the death penalty would not have any significant effect on murder rates. In addition, 75% of the respondents agree that “debates about the death penalty distract Congress and state legislatures from focusing on real solutions to crime problems.”
The survey relied on questionnaires completed by the most pre-eminent criminologists in the country, including Fellows in the American Society of Criminology; winners of the American Society of Criminology’s prestigious Southerland Award; and recent presidents of the American Society of Criminology. Respondents were not asked for their personal opinion about the death penalty, but instead to answer on the basis of their understandings of the empirical research.
Facts about Deterrence and the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center
I mentioned this in another thread, but there are actually two types of deterrence; general and specific. General means the punishment deters others from committing the same type of crimes and "specific" meaning it deters the same individual from committing more crime. When used, the DP is a 100% effective specific deterrent.
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