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The Death Sentence
January 29, 2007 - 12:51 AM
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How often if at all, should the death sentence be implemented and what gives anyone the right to decide that another human being deserves death?
What should and, is the yard stick for measuring the need to implement this sentence?
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Re: The Death Sentence
January 30, 2007 - 03:41 PM
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This thread is being moved to the Human Rights and Equity Board where it belongs...
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Re: The Death Sentence
February 1, 2007 - 06:00 AM
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We also need to aks ourselves- "what purpose is the death sentence serving?" and "who is benefitting?"
This post was edited on: 2007-02-01 at 06:01 AM by: Shweta-sj
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Re: The Death Sentence
February 3, 2007 - 08:29 PM
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I have to agree with the above post, who does it benefit?, but at the same time, I believe that it is up to the country's government and people to decide what punishment they believe fitting. the point of the death sentence is, obviously, to dissuade people from committing certain crimes, such as murder or drug trafficking and in countries where these things are rife and crippling to a country then they need to have a mechanism which shows they are taking a strong stance to ensure it is stamped out.
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Re: The Death Sentence
February 5, 2007 - 11:40 AM
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The death sentence...is it a right way, what way would it be considered as? To me, this issue is immoral. How do we have the right to say who lives and who dies. How does that seem even close to okay? There is no way this could be okay...absolutely no way. The death sentence is no way moral. When you look online at the department of justice, it will tell you all about executions that have taken place in detail. In some cases, the person in charge of the act could not find the vein to stick in the dying man's arm and the victim would have to find it. He has to kill himself. Isnt suicide illegal? I agree, that killing of a person is wrong, like Saddam Hussein killing all those innocent people, but how was his death a justice. I agree, maybe some pain was eased, but we treated his death like a circus show for all to see. I can go on and on and on about this issue but to me, this issue is wrong. Instead of the death sentence, it should be life with no parole EVER!
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Re: The Death Sentence
February 20, 2007 - 01:05 AM
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The death sentence is an excellent deterrent and ought be maintained as such. Although I favour solitary confinement as a more suitable form of punishment.
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Re: The Death Sentence
February 20, 2007 - 02:20 PM
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Lets be careful here... I don't support the death sentence for many reasons.. but the ideas put forward of;
1 Life with no parole (ever).
2 The same but with solitary confinement thrown in as well.
both worry me. I see the death penalty as something that should be avoided due to (for lack of a better word) its immorality... so why should we want to replace it with something else designed to induce large amounts of suffering for the rest of their life?
It's an improvement, at least if the charges are dropped they can be freed, but in terms of oppression if someone told me I could spend the rest of my life on my own in a concrete cell, or it can all end now... I would probably choose execution.
Let's not replace one travesty of 'justice' with another, they both seem to be focused on revenge more than anything else.
The only times i can think of this being remotely appropriate would be in terms of serial killers/rapists or dictators like saddam.
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 6, 2007 - 05:37 PM
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I think its important to keep one thing in mind that hasn't been brought the to the table yet. One of the original questions was "Who does this benefit/effect?" and the answer is you, us, and every individual that pays taxes yearly. The amount of money the government spends on those in prison is a massive amount, and its tax payers that cut the bill. While, im not particularly an avid supporter of the death penalty I do believe that those that have been sentenced life in prison with no opportunity of parole and have committed serious crimes should be executed.
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 7, 2007 - 01:21 AM
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The death sentence is mean, it should not exist
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 7, 2007 - 01:35 AM
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tiff32082 wrote:
I think its important to keep one thing in mind that hasn't been brought the to the table yet. One of the original questions was "Who does this benefit/effect?" and the answer is you, us, and every individual that pays taxes yearly. The amount of money the government spends on those in prison is a massive amount, and its tax payers that cut the bill. While, im not particularly an avid supporter of the death penalty I do believe that those that have been sentenced life in prison with no opportunity of parole and have committed serious crimes should be executed.
One of the things wrong with the death penalty is that a prisoner may sit on death row for years. So, while you may agree that a killer should get the death penalty, he or she may not actually be executed until tens of years later. So, tax payers are still footing the bill either way. The problem is the system itself. You can't just kill someone immediately after the trial verdict because the justice system isn't perfect, and sometimes mistakes are made. But as to whether the death penalty is humane or not, Im sure there are better/more efficient ways of executing people than using the electric chair.
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 7, 2007 - 01:43 AM
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While I realize that the sytem is flawed, I believe its all relevant to time. Its better to have tax payers "foot the bill" for a prisoner in jail for ten years rather then say twenty or even forty years. While a more effiecent and humane way is something that would be nice to have, the fact is that there isn't one.
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 7, 2007 - 06:37 AM
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I would say that the death sentence should be brought back but that it should only be for people who commites serrius crime e.g: rape and murder.
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 7, 2007 - 06:46 AM
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tiff32082 wrote:
While I realize that the sytem is flawed, I believe its all relevant to time. Its better to have tax payers "foot the bill" for a prisoner in jail for ten years rather then say twenty or even forty years. While a more effiecent and humane way is something that would be nice to have, the fact is that there isn't one.
Sorry the average life span on death row isn't ten years, in quite a few cases it goes up to times like 20 or 30 years. Sentencing someone to death is still going to be ludicrously expensive.
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Re: The Death Sentence
March 7, 2007 - 05:00 PM
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I'm really not all that comfortable with giving the government the right to decide who lives or dies. I would also like to point out (as some have above) that the death penalty seems to be more about revenge than it is about justice. Since Justice is the ultimate pursuit of all of our respective judicial systems, I fail to see how revenge fits into that category.
I also fail to see how it's an effective deterrent to violent crime. These types of crimes still happen all the time in America. If we are willing to make the leap of taking life in order to punish the taking of life shouldn't we be sure that this measure will actually scare people enough to prevent them from committing murder? I personally would only institute such a measure only if I knew I would rarely, if ever, have to use it.
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