August 24, 200521 yr Do you believe in Capital Punishment? Do you think its wrong or right? WHY? Classic Theories of Capital Punishment 1. reform 2. just deserves it 3. an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth 4. to protect innocent people 5. deterance I think it is wrong because who are we to say who dies or lives... Only God can do that. And dont you think criminals on death row suffer less if they get executed instead of sitting in jail forever. imagine if you were on death row and were innocent. would you want to know the exact day you are going to die on? if i told you that you were going to die in exactly one month and tell you how it wouyld happen... would you want that? if one of the theories behind it is reform... can you reform a dead person? How can that person become better if he is killed? as for an eye for an eye tooth for a tooth... If the whole world continued to live like this the whole world would be blind and toothless -Ghandi (roughly what he said)
August 24, 200521 yr Its main justification is as a deterrence, not as reform. In addition, it provides closure to greiving families. I dont think either of those things actually works out though. But who am I to tell? I think it should be up to the victims families or reserved for heinous cases. I think its used to loosely. It is necessary however. Nothing is more severe than the power of death and vengence.
August 24, 200521 yr To me certain rapes and all murder are justifiabe offenses for death by leathal injection for a person 18 or older.
August 24, 200521 yr Classic Theories of Capital Punishment 1. reform 2. just deserves it 3. an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth 4. to protect innocent people The only one that rings true is 2 and 3. There's something to be said for vengeance. I lot of people are into thay kind of thing. Me, I'm for it. Who cares? I just wish as soon as there was no doubt they were guilty and there was no chance to reverse the charges they'd get it over with sooner. I don't need my tax dollars feeding that dood. But, then again, you have to think these are also problems with prison itself. I'm not sure there's any evidence that prison "reformed" anyone.
August 24, 200521 yr Author Its main justification is as a deterrence, not as reform. In addition, it provides closure to greiving families. I dont think either of those things actually works out though. But who am I to tell? I think it should be up to the victims families or reserved for heinous cases. I think its used to loosely. It is necessary however. Nothing is more severe than the power of death and vengence. 913602[/snapback] you are right the last theory of punishment is deterrance, and i do think it does deter murderers
August 24, 200521 yr Its main justification is as a deterrence, not as reform. In addition, it provides closure to greiving families. I dont think either of those things actually works out though. But who am I to tell? I think it should be up to the victims families or reserved for heinous cases. I think its used to loosely. It is necessary however. Nothing is more severe than the power of death and vengence. 913602[/snapback] you are right the last theory of punishment is deterrance, and i do think it does deter murderers 913780[/snapback] Most murderers who kill in the heat of the momeny don't have time to think of consequence, though...
August 24, 200521 yr I don't think that capital punishment has deterred many murderers. If someone is crazy enough to murder a few people, I doubt they care if they live or not. Some of them I would rather see rot in jail for 80 years, because they believe that death is an escape from their crimes.
August 25, 200521 yr Some background information: it actually costs more to execute a prisoner as opposed to life imprisonment due to the various levels of appeals. As for my opinion, the challenge is finding irrefutable proof. There have been too many cases (and one is enough) where an innocent man has been charged and imprisoned. That being said, if there is a criminal deserving of the death penalty, it's the child molesters since they have an extremely high recidivism rate.
August 25, 200521 yr Author But morally do you think it is right or wrong... i guess this hinges some what on your relious beliefs
August 25, 200521 yr But morally do you think it is right or wrong... i guess this hinges some what on your relious beliefs 913943[/snapback] Why religious? That's ridiculous. Kid T posted the best non-religious reason. Don't be ridiculous.
August 25, 200521 yr People who go on killing sprees and plan ahead what they are going to do, deserve to die because there is no place for them in this world
August 25, 200521 yr i'm against it. why? it accomplishes nothing other than give some people a sense of revenge. and its more costly to the legal system in the long run.
August 25, 200521 yr lower down the number of appeals and then I am for it. I believe that it would be better to be used for any Murder 1 charge. It could remove some of the over crowding in our prisons.
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