The Death Penalty

So you want relatives to decide the punishment. Welcome back to the middle age (or to some remote muslim controlled area).

If there should be anybody but the law deciding what should happen to a murder that should be the murdered one, but he cannot decide anymore so the law decides for him. And the people decide the laws. And the majority of people are against death penalty.

 

sorry, but who are you to decide what gives the families peace of mind? I dont believe in throwing the first stone, but I cannot tell YOU to forgive someone else, can I?

 

There is a solid point here. A lot of people don't believe in the death penalty partly because it is in the bible THOUGH SHALL NOT KILL And if the government by this I mean the USA is Christian as they claim to be they are sinning every time they put someone to DEATH

 

Not where I live!

Where do you live that you believe this to be true?

 

Like I have said before, man. Who am I to tell the victims families how to find peace?

 

Tell them to find peace threw grieving and the wanting of someones death is ungodly need that they should put out of there mind unless they want to
GO TO HELL. And maybe that one DEATH won't bring back there family members. But take away ONE MORE person's chance to live.

 

I knew this had to come. What I meant was the majority of the people on earth. That is why there are so few places that has the death penalty. And its also why death penalties slowly are diminishing all over the world.
China is not counted in this, they have death penalty for "minor" crimes and obviously has big problems to work as a civilized society.

 

First post in Religion and Politics... Please be gentle with me

The only thing I'd be afraid of with life in prison would be escapees. I couldn't feel safe knowing someone who killed my whole family (using blogmaster's example) could one day just sneak back out and kill someone else's family. I honestly don't know what I'd want, but if it was life in prison, send them to a maximum security prison (alcatraz used to be a good choice a long time ago).

 

the odds of someone escaping are pretty slim I think

 

GENTLE??? What the **** do you mean !!! You little ... !!!


Hehe, just kidding, a warm welcome to you.

 

dude that is easy to say when you are not the one who has lost someone

 

I'm personally against the death penalty purely on economic grounds. It costs more to put someone to death in the states where the Death Penalty is used than it does to house them for life. They live over a decade in prison, having huge amounts of mandatory appeals for anything that could even conceivably be a mitigating factor in a trial, proceedings which stretch on forever clogging the courts, and costing the legal system huge amounts of money.

If we managed to get the cost down to where killing an inmate was at least only slightly more costly than keeping them alive in prison for life, then I would re-examine the issue.

I am, by the way, all for taking the luxury back out of prisons.

 

So are the odds of someone killing your whole family, right?

Still, if the person DID pull a Papillon, wouldn't you just feel horrible if they killed someone else? If maybe you could have prevented it?

I don't mean death penalty for one person kills another, I mean death penalty when they are 100% sure it's the guy (dna?) and he's killed several people: Serial killers and Rampage killers.

 

That's only a result of a broken system.

Bullets are cheap, as are buckets and mops.

These people have the right to a speedy trial and a swift execution.

 

i am agree too.

 

you are agree too what?

 

I already said I'd re-examine my position on the death penalty if the system got fixed will.