I didn't say I am more qualified but I can understand the emotional power that can push a person over the edge, while government can not act on emotions and have no such excuse. If I kill the criminal, should I be punished for my crime? Yes, of course.
I agree with this to an extent, I however am pro death penalty. While I do think some over use it I also realise my opinion on how it should specifically be used will never happen, in my dream world the Death Penalty would exist. It however would A only beable to be used in only the worst of murders, rapes, child molestors, etc and B have such an overwhelming amount of proof such as a confession, dna evidence, finger prints, video, eye witnesses and not have one shadow of a doubt. In such a case the judge should also have oversight and if he/she sees even a glimmer of doubt should beable to and be obliged to stop the death penalty from happening. Mistakes would still happen, innocent would probally still be put to death, but the likelyhood would be greatly reduced. my $.02
gworld, would you kill these people? Probably not, huh? They were just Christian girls on their way to school http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3424949
1- You have to know what is the cause behind this, from the article it is possible that it is caused by religious, social tension in the area but it is not certain. 2- Do the best police investigation possible to arrest those responsible and clear what was the motive behind it. 3- If they are common criminals then give them a life time sentence and everything is finished. 4- If the action is based on political motives, start the government propaganda machine and explain for everyone as much as possible, why killing children is such despicable act that should be condemned by every one independent of political ideology. 5- Give them life in prison as punishment and let them be forgotten. If you think by killing them you are solving anything then you are mistaken since killing them just makes them martyr for the cause independent of what they have done and recruits more people for their cause. Making martyrs in small wars is a stupid tactic that won't work.
Exactly. I'm an Athiest and I am pro-death penalty. There is no sense keeping someone alive at taxpayers expense when you have already come to accept that you will never rehabilitate or release them. Everyone dies, execution is only an early death penalty.
Here we go again, any excuse to kill some one. Have you ever looked at the studies that killing someone is more expensive than keeping that person in prison for rest of his life?
Too bad Will gets scared when it is for real, otherwise you could have let him do it and got paid from him too.
Execution is only expensive because of all of the bullshit paperwork caused by the Liberal idiots. Bullets are cheap and cremation is quite cost-effective also.
How about getting rid of most of the 'paper work' and simply making it a higher standard from the get go? Less will be sentenced to death, but those being sentenced to death will be put to death much quicker? I'm not for the death penalty from a cost savings though, never will be.
What a shame ... you've gotten banned before I could get acquointed with you (always the good ones that bite the dust ... NOT )
I didn't say we should deny justice to anyone, it is Will who just wants to put them next to the wall and shoot them, provided someone else do it and not him. "in recent years some 1% of death row inmates nationwide have been found factually innocent and released; more than 100 people have been released from death row on grounds of actual innocence since 1973. " http://www2.bc.edu/~sydnor/8.html
True Will, gworld wants them to be free to kill even more people. Especially Christians Note his understanding and compassion for head choppers on the previous page. Now had that been Christians chopping off muslim heads, oh would we have seen a different reaction. Like his fifteen pages of Christian bashing earlier in the thread. But not a bad word to spare for a head chopper