Death penalty

• Virtue wrote on 2010-07-27 17:05
  Do people that have taken someone else's life deserve to live?
  
  (Of course, this means with the intent to have killed, not just a mother defending herself from a guy with a knife by pushing him away and him falling in the wrong position on the sidewalk and thus dying in the blink of an eye.)
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2010-07-27 17:27
  People that kill someone intentionally should be killed they day they are found out.
  
  Same with rapists and child molesters.
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-07-27 17:44
  If it's really in self-defense, they had to do something...
• Zack wrote on 2010-07-27 17:44
  No. It's much worse to suffer in jail for the rest of your life.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-07-27 18:35
  I don't think anyone has the right to take another person's life.
  
  Not even the government.
  
  But it is done as a form of punishment, maybe even revenge.
  
  Then again, I don't think that anyone has the right to hurt another person.
  
  I would support death penalty for someone who had the intention and planned out a murder beforehand.
• Serathx wrote on 2010-07-27 18:39

  Quote from RicochetOrange;106626:

  People that kill someone intentionally should be killed they day they are found out.
  
  Same with rapists and child molesters.

  
  
  This is my view on it, especially with serial rapists and murderers.
• Zid wrote on 2010-07-27 18:40
  To me, it's a bad example of what message the judging entity is trying to get across.
  
  "Oh, so you intended to kill that person for their seat of power. Well, we intend to kill you to teach you a lesson. That killing is wrong and right."
• Virtue wrote on 2010-07-27 18:43

  Quote from Zid;106727:

  To me, it's a bad example of what message you're trying to get across.
  
  "Oh, so you intended to kill that person for their seat of power. Well, we intend to kill you to teach you a lesson. That killing is wrong and right."

  Ah, I didn't mean it like that - I should've perhaps added "[...]and to have succesfully killed" after it was intended.
• Zid wrote on 2010-07-27 18:48

  Quote from Virtue;106730:

  Ah, I didn't mean it like that - I should've perhaps added "[...]and to have succesfully killed" after it was intended.

  
  
  It wasn't aimed at you, sorry. ^^;
  
  Will edit.
• dasu wrote on 2010-07-27 19:01
  I don't support the death penalty, but I also don't think it should come into question. Punishing murder with death doesn't solve any problems. If the goal is to eliminate murder (or rape or whatever your serious crime in question is), then you have to remove the desire (or more often the "need") to commit it in the first place. Most of these crimes could be worked out of society if people didn't have reason to commit them. Rather than killing criminals, we should just ask them why they did whatever, so we can solve these problems for good.
• Serathx wrote on 2010-07-27 19:07

  Quote from dasu;106745:

  I don't support the death penalty, but I also don't think it should come into question. Punishing murder with death doesn't solve any problems. If the goal is to eliminate murder (or rape or whatever your serious crime in question is), then you have to remove the desire (or more often the "need") to commit it in the first place. Most of these crimes could be worked out of society if people didn't have reason to commit them. Rather than killing criminals, we should just ask them why they did whatever, so we can solve these problems for good.

  
  
  Uh, I would imagine that most murderers/rapists aren't that rational.
  As such, I would say that asking them why they did it wouldn't help.
  Some of the more insane ones would just say, "Because I felt like it", or something along those lines.
  /isfailpsychologist, so I probably got it wrong here
• Axx wrote on 2010-07-27 19:08

  Quote from RicochetOrange;106626:

  
  Same with rapists and child molesters.

  
  They're the same thing. Only difference is whether a child is involved or not, and I'm no longer of the view that just because it's done to a child instead of an adult that automatically makes it 10x worse.
  
  I support the death penalty for murders committed in the process of committing another crime, or for murders committed by psychos who simply like killing.
  
  If you could prove 100% (meaning DNA evidence, not just testimony) that someone committed a violent rape, I'd be fine with a death penalty sentence. I think penalties for drugged rape should be harsher than what they are (I'd prefer some form of torture, but that's slightly illegal), maybe a life sentence. Rapists aren't liked in prisons. But none of this 'soft-rape' bullsh*t where a drunk woman goes home with a stranger, wakes up the next day and decides she must've been raped.
• Tatsu wrote on 2010-07-27 23:03
  Against. Instead, it should be completely replaced with being in jail for the rest of their life. Being stuck is jail is much worse.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-07-27 23:10
  Being killed off right away and suffering in jail for the remainder of your natural life .... if I were a criminal I would prefer death D:
  So if I wanted a criminal to really be punished, lock them up forever. Die behind bars.
• Mario wrote on 2010-07-27 23:28
  Depends on stuffs.
  If they are mentally ill or need anger management... uhhh they should go to jail.
  If intentional, KILL THEM VERY SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY D:<