Death penalty

[AbsintheClock]

Since the Code of Hammurabi governments of the world have put people to death for various charges ranging from murder to being “a witch.” The United States executes on average 60 people a year making us #4 on the capitol punishment list. What justifies the killing of another human being; taking one life for another for an example. How do we deem some people to be unfit to live?

The justification of the death penalty is a difficult one to explain. When someone does something so horrific to another human being that they no longer can really be considered as human beings the death penalty becomes a wonderful solution. The government spends billions of dollars every year to house, feed, clothe, and look after inmates who have committed crimes so horrible that they will never see the light of day. Why is their life so valuable? What do they have to offer that is worth all this time, effort, and money? Should you be set for life because you killed people in cold blood, or if you raped a 5 year old girl? There is a plethora of other crimes so disgusting that I’m not even going to try and name them. Point is that these people cannot be rehabilitated. Most of these people do not feel sorrow or remorse for what they have done. In fact the only thing they’re sorry about is getting caught.

Why should we show mercy? More than that… Why do we take so much consideration into how we execute these people? The electric chair itself has somehow been deemed cruel and unusual by left wing yahoos like Hillary Clinton. Many people are suggesting using an expensive series of poisons like lethal injection. For these people who think lethal injection isn’t painful, it is. First sodium thiopental is injected in order to render the body unconscious. This injection only has a very temporary effect which only lasts 10-30 minutes depending on the dosage. Next tubocurarine chloride is injected to stop all muscle movement except for the heart which makes the diaphragm collapse thus stopping all breathing. Finally potassium chloride is injected to stop the heart. I would imagine it also causes a burning sensation through the veins which becomes very painful. This method of killing is no more humane than the electric chair. In my personal opinion if I had to choose how to be executed I’d rather be shot in the head more than anything. A firing squad is also a lot cheaper.

[RibsClock]

I don't think that anyone should be put to death except in the event that there is immediate and certain peril to another's life because of that person. When the system is bad enough that people are being proven innocent posthumously, then you know that the Death Penalty is not an acceptible method in our correctional system.

[GiftClock]

Pretty much my feelings exactly.

I think that the circumstances of the crime should be considered.

Like if I got home and caught my wife in bed with another man... and shot him for instance, I'd say that's less serious than going out and killing multiple people for kicks. The former, I think, should not carry the death penalty.

[RevolutionaryClock]

In my opinion people should only be put to death in extreme situations. The point of isolating people from the rest of society should be to help them, not punish them. If someone shoots someone out of anger, that person should be spending time in therapy rather then just being locked away as punishment. The only time that killing another person should be acceptable is if one is in serious risk of being killed themselves without any options but to kill the opponent, or if someone it simply too dangerous to be left alive.

[LimeClock]

60 people isnt that much, should be more. Prisons are overcrowded.

I think like premeditated murder should be. But like manslaughter, stuff like accidently hitting someone, or somethign like that... should not be. Rapists should be castrated. They have a hard time in prison. very hard time. In the butt.

[RevolutionaryClock]

I don't think thats an effective solution at all. We need to go to the source and do a better job at preventing crime then just killing people and punishing them for their crimes. In the end, that just revenge. Its shit.

[yoslow]

I think roting in a cell for the rest of your life is a lot worse then being put to death. Being raped, beat up, hurt, treated like crap in jail I think thats a worse punishment then death cause you have to deal with that every day for the rest of your life. Try waking up evey day in a small cell and remember why you were there, that punishment is worse then ok you die done. Personaly I think the death penalty is the easy way out.

[Marlin Clock]

In my personal opinion if I had to choose how to be executed I’d rather be shot in the head more than anything. A firing squad is also a lot cheaper.

You have to think of the morality issue, it is pritty much killing in cold blood like they did, also most people in the law enforcement don't want to shoot people, it has to be on necessity, even in old times they needed to use a blank cartrige in one of the guns so that the men have the peace of mind that they could possibly not have killed him.
They did try an automatic firing squad back then, maybe that would work...

[Soup Clock]

I despise the death penalty. It's not so much the life that I care about, but the fact that the standards for it are so elastic. Another downside is the uneven distribution of the death penalty throughout the states.

[HemoClock]

The death penalty is a rough issue, I think that the victim's or family's relatives should have a great deal of involvement in the sentence. I know that if someone murdered my whole family, I would be histerically angry. Of course you have the men/women that dont even care that their being put to death, and laugh maniacally as the venom surges through their vains.

P.S: I like chocolate

[RevolutionaryClock]

Of course you have the men/women that dont even care that their being put to death, and laugh maniacally as the venom surges through their vains.

People who are likely insane and should be in a mental health facility or in extensive therapy rather then a prison.

[Soup Clock]

People who are likely insane and should be in a mental health facility or in extensive therapy rather then a prison.

Agreed. I hate the Republican/conservative mindset "punishment over rehabilitation". If you can make someone a better person, you may as well try it.

[HemoClock]

that should be the case for any criminal then eh? if what your saying is true, that every person can improve or change. not just the insane

[RevolutionaryClock]

the insane can't improve or change. For them its better to just isolate, but killing off those with a critical mental disorder is another thing. Those with other mental disorders though can improve, as can most people if given treatment, kept from a negative environment, and given the financial means to try.

[doomscorpion]

daeth penalty is wrong, no-one deserves to die apart from: terrorists (you know why!), Matt Harrison (that is personal!), murderers (gives them a taste of their own medicine!)

[SageClock]

The government spends billions of dollars every year to house, feed, clothe, and look after inmates who have committed crimes so horrible that they will never see the light of day.

True, but after all the appeals for death penalty cases, it actually costs 3 times more to put one man to death than it would be to keep him in prison for 40 years (average length of a life sentence).

Personally I don't see why a life sentence without parole isn't bad enough already. Sure prisons have kind of their own little meta-society in them, but it's not a very fulfilling one. And it gives the inmates plenty of time to reflect on their actions, and maybe even write about their experiences and give something back to society, without ever becoming a danger to it again.

[PygmyClock]

I don't think it's right for somone's life too be taken from them if it isn't just. If the persons mentality is corrupt, and s/he will never be a good person again, s/he should be killed. If the person could rehabilitate from the crimes s/he has done, they should be left too prison.

I would like to be shot in the head like absinthe, if ever I was set too execution, fast, effective and painless.

[Marlin Clock]

All those thinking about death penalty vs. life/solitary should read this.
I'm not that much for the death penalty, but it has you thinking.

[AbsintheClock]

You have to think of the morality issue, it is pritty much killing in cold blood like they did, also most people in the law enforcement don't want to shoot people, it has to be on necessity, even in old times they needed to use a blank cartrige in one of the guns so that the men have the peace of mind that they could possibly not have killed him.
They did try an automatic firing squad back then, maybe that would work...

To kill in order to defend your home or country is a justifiable murder. If you're killing someone who is an immediate danger to you or your country you should have no qualms about killing the bastard. By that I don't mean people with different ideaology. I mean people who kill other people, blow shit up, rape women, etc etc etc. I would have no qualms about putting one between the eyes of someone who broke into my house or commited such a horrible crime.

[RomanClock]

if you kill 1 person, rehab/prison for X years

if they kill more than 1 person ever = dealth penalty

killing as in 'for fum', 'attetion' , 'cuz', or when NOT defending yourself/someone else's life