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[Poll] Should death penalty be used at all ?
December 4, 2005 - 04:33 AM
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There has been many cases in the world where the culprits get death penalty for various reasons.But dont u think it's bit too harsh to give a verdict like that .I think that God has created us and only he has the right to destroy us.So what do u think , should death penalty be given as the verdict?
do u think death penalty should be given as a punishment?
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No
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Can't say
(1 votes for 2.38%)
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Death Penalty Out
December 8, 2005 - 06:16 AM
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Everyone has their personal opinions on the death penalty and its a very widely discussed topic. I for one do not think that people should get the death penalty, not because of my religion or beliefs, but because of one simple fact. Given time, people will think, and they will change, and put them in a situation/enviroment like jail and they will eventually (hopefully) understand what they did was wrong and this is what they got, and feel remorse.
When you're a kid you're put in time out, or in the corner, you get time to think what you've done wrong. The death penalty takes a person's right to understand for themselves what they've done wrong away. I dont think we should take that right from them.
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about the death penalty
December 8, 2005 - 07:54 AM
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there r other ways that r harsher than the death penalty like putting someone in a private cell forever (no light,no ppl,no life in short)so what do u think?isn't it much harder than the death penalty ?it is the distruction of the human as apenalty for his unforgiven crime however how bad it was ,so i guess that sometimes the death penalty is a merciful penalty.as if u compared u will find death is better than living in complete darkness
there r another thing u have to know that when someone comitt a crime then others can do it so in penology there r public and private inhibition or banning so that nobody would commit that crime again cause heshe knew the sanction for such crime from another person ,the rules of law should be respected and anyone who disrespect that then heshe deserves the sanction for this disobedience,which varies from a crime to another depending on how much by committing this crime he disobeyed the law and harmed the public benifit and society
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Not in all cases!!
January 7, 2006 - 11:02 AM
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I think death penalty is something good for the ones that had murdered. The real problem is it doesn't apply anywhere. For example here in Mexico I think we need more and better police and detective organizations because you can't kill an innocent person. And how are we really sure they're guilty?? If we people in general don't have the correct and accurate prooves and arguments we can't apply a punishment. And if we don't have this we're going backwards in our evolution.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 01:38 AM
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Well, if you look at it from an economics point of view, it is much cheaper to simply end the life of a criminal then to continuously spend money on his/her stay in jail. As mentioned in previous posts, I agree that many criminals learn from their experience in jail and move out of their life of crime but there is also a great majority of them who go back (or never actually leave it, they just run their "businesses" from jail - in the case of drug trafficking for example). In this case, I don't tink sending them back to jail will do them any good, so there is no point in continuously spending tax-payer's money in thinks that could eventually be avoided, if used correctly.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 03:38 AM
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Caic,
of course you missed something important; Australia was founded by jailed criminals. The economy of an entire country was founded by the economic exploitation of criminals in jail.
Economically speaking, I believe it's more "beneficiary" to have criminals in jails, and exploit them economically, than to execute them.
What do you think ?
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 04:23 AM
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It depends how the prisons are being managed. In most of the developing countries (Brazil as an example), prisoners are just put there on pause, not really doing anything other than doing their time and wasting government fund. On the other hand, some prisons try to turn their facility into a business (usually related to services industries), which to some extent gives back to the community. In my opinion the prisoners aren't really being exploited, even though they only get paid a few cents an hour, its still a salary, and to be fair, they are not really in the position to bargain.
Anyways, I do think that for prisons that can afford the appropriate infrastructure to turn their facility into a lucrative business, they are better off without the death penalty since the prisoners now represent a profitable source of income, which would in theory make the prison more self-sufficient and lower its dependency on government funding.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 06:47 AM
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I still believe that some cases need the application of death penalty.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 07:12 AM
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What do you think of quite a number of people committing some crimes, and voluntarily, committing suicide - because they think it is the only thing that would make them "feel just"-?
Any ideas ?
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 07:15 AM
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Sir,
i want you to imagine this with me ...
I'm a criminal .. and i killed a small girl .... and i know in advance that if i was caught ,then the maximum punish i will got is to be putten in prison for ever ... so i'm not afraid because i know that i will not killed !!! then i have not problem !!!!!!!!.......
Thats how every criminal on this earth will think !!!
Soooooo ... Its important to keep such these punishments (killing) to prevent the maximum number of criminal from doing such these things !!!
what do you think ???
Regards,
SAM
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 08:11 AM
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I don't know what the general opinion is on this matter, but I would personally be much more terrified of spending my life in jail than to get the death penalty. I am in favor of it, but I don't particularly agree with this as being a decisive point in deciding if it should be made legal or not.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 8, 2006 - 12:55 PM
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Death penalty is a must for convicted rapists, and molesters.
our laws have enough loopholes ( by the way of definition of a sex crime) to let the perpetrator go scoot free.i think this is one crime which has no external provocation. one can have reasons to steal , murder,cheat but no possible reasons for such a disgusting crime.
today, especially in south asia and south east asia young girls and boys are forced into prostituition . their childhood is scarred forever because of some greedy pimps and customers. these monsters are simply not worthy of being called humans and hence do not require any sympathy.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
January 15, 2006 - 09:55 AM
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What all of you experts on Law and Criminology have to rememeber is that people who have been convicted of a crime are just that people. It is not for us to exploit them as cheap labour, it is up to us to use our resources to rehabilitate them and throwing them in prison for 5,10,20 years or taking their life in now way does that. I've worked with people in prison for the past five years. Many of these people have had to endure a life that of cruelty, abuse and suffering at the hands of family and strangers. Yes there are people who deserve serve punishment especially those who have committed sexual offences and offences against children. But for those who are in prison because for them there were only two options in life, jail or suicide and there are many people like that. Those people need our help, and making them work 8hours a day in a workshop doesn't do that. These people need training, education, counselling. People who have access to education, employment and a supportive family don't often end up in Prison and when they do it is big news. It is People who have never had those things that a more likely to be convicted.
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the death penalty is an exit
January 27, 2006 - 10:03 AM
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whe you issue the death penalty, that person gets an easy way out. they basically dont even have to think about what they did. im not a heavy religous person but i think that they should be judged by their maker and not judged by people that have never met them.
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Re: Should death penalty be used at all ?
February 7, 2006 - 09:30 AM
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Death penalty is seen more as a deterrant type of punishment as compared to retributive as seen by pro-life arguers. As I personally see it, it works against drug trffickers here. In our justice system, we see drug addicts as victims, but we see traffickers as harming intentionally a third party, fulfilling the harm principle thus justifying shortening their lives.
I think that paedophiles and rapists should get physical castration, but for some reason it's not exactly a widely agreed upon choice of punishment. *snigger*
whe you issue the death penalty, that person gets an easy way out. they basically dont even have to think about what they did.
Oh, they do have a lot to think about. That's what death row's all about after all. Some people appeal for years on end, some confirmed for death penalty but you let the implications sink for a week or two first before you hang 'em.
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