The problem with the death penalty

[MAX 300]

Here's an example where the death penalty ought to apply:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10684059%5E26462,00.html

Armed break in and robbery into a family's house should deserve long sentences of hard prison time. 20 years at least.

But these guys went further, time's up for them

Those three men who did this to that girl deserve to hang.

There were previous articles on this case -

Here's the problem though, what if it wasn't them?

The police, the prosecutors, the judges are too eager to get convictions. In a crime like this they have to find who's guilty or they're in the shitter.

 

[Tiervexx]

Here's an example where the death penalty ought to apply:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10684059%5E26462,00.html

Armed break in and robbery into a family's house should deserve long sentences of hard prison time. 20 years at least.

But these guys went further, time's up for them

Those three men who did this to that girl deserve to hang.

There were previous articles on this case -

Here's the problem though, what if it wasn't them?

The police, the prosecutors, the judges are too eager to get convictions. In a crime like this they have to find who's guilty or they're in the shitter.

Exactly. I understand the death penalty on a philosophical level, but on a practical level it is indefensible.

Punishments must be reversible because absolute guilt can not be determined.

It is even a bad idea to execute people like Saddam, because we will make a martyr out of him.

 

[ripper2]

the problem with the death penalty is that it takes so long befor we enforce it. waste so many tax dollars housing/feeding/entertaining/and finally lethally injecting these fuckers. if someone gets convicted, take 'em out back and put a bullet in their head. instead of spending $1000s upon $1000s a $.15 bullet does the trick.

 

[RADAR]

There was this girl that worked in a convenient store when i was 24 in college i had a crush on, man ! She was a living doll ,great personality ( Sandra Allen) 3 black men abducted her from work took her to the woods raped her made her preform oral before they killed her & buried her in a shallow grave--it took 25 years before everyone finally got the chair!
I still get choked up thinking about it!

I still cannot get over how her parents let her work in a seedy part of town like that, the blacks hung around the store all day looked like they never bathed and drank.

They should have just turned them over to me and been done with it!
RADAR

 

[casualbb]

The main problem with the death penalty is it doesn't work.

Deterrance is the point, but across the US when states would introduce the death penalty there was no change in rates of violent crime. If it doesn't actually prevent crime that basically just makes it for the sake of revenge.

 

[maxpain]

The main problem with the death penalty is it doesn't work.

Deterrance is the point, but across the US when states would introduce the death penalty there was no change in rates of violent crime. If it doesn't actually prevent crime that basically just makes it for the sake of revenge.

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I think it would prevent crime IF it was enforced. Like ripper2 said it takes too damn long to enforce. If you get the death penalty there is a automatic appeal. Most other crimes you have to go before a judge to get a appeal and still can be denied. But not in death penalty cases. So if people knew they would be dead within 24 hours of convicts no questions ask. I think it would work as a crime preventive. Just like here in a town right next door. It is the law you own a handgun. You know what they have virtaully no crime to speak of. WHY ?? Because criminals know their victim just might be holdin cold steel. So deterrance does work.

Maxpain

 

[Carmen]

it prevents tax payers from having to support killers for the rest of their lives- paying for their food, dentists, doctors, entertainment, etc.
It prevents some sicko from wanting to commit a 'simple robbery' and finishing with a murder and then living out the rest of his life with the right to sue the state, with the right to torment the victims family, and with the right to actually be free again.

 

[jerseyart]

I can't support the death penalty, but I acknowledge it is mostly on religious grounds. Such extreme forms of vengeance have no place in a civil society (imo).

Aside from that, what bothers me the most, are the numbers of convictions later turned over due to later evidence (such as dna testing). In some states the rate of innocent people convicted of murder which were later overturned was a s high as 10%. That's fucking outrageous, and not even close to acceptable in terms of where we would need to be to morally operate under strict death penalty laws.

Once they are in custody, they are no longer a threat. I have no desire to play God with lives unnecessarily.

 

[BileStew]

I support the death penalty.

 

[IwouldSlamU]

i think it is over used....ie TEXAS.........