krustytheclown

Im sorry if this has been talked about before (I did do a search, could not find anything...)

What are your opinions about the Death Penalty? Do you think its right?

Kanchi

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Support it.

Metro273

I support it also cause if we did it MORE often, we would have alot less crimes and murders but hey, that's my OWN opinion...

GammaTNT

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They don't work. Texas have the most Death Penalty, and I don't think its crime rate is the lowest.
So Death Penalty does not deter crimes.

RedneckwithanxB

let em fry...

Ron White says it best, "If you kill someone we will kill you back "

matt_a

Sure it does. How many crimes have been committed by those people after they were executed?
I don't see capital punishment as a very effective deterrent either, but the people who are executed aren't going to get out and harm anyone else...ever.

BigMURR

It is a necessary evil, and like what other were jokingly saying they aren't going to kill or break the law anymore. It may not be a deturnant but it is one less horrible person taking up valuable cell space as many jails are all ready overfilled.

Personally I think after the trial is all said and done they need to hurry up the killing. I hate the appeal and legal crap that seems to just complicate everything.

salteen

kill em all

BigMURR

"...We put in an express lane."

scionofPCFL

In principal, I agree with it, in practice that's another story.

If the evidence is overwhelming, hellz yeah.

If your public defender falls asleep during trial, well that's another story.

citizen01

Two things...
1) Capital punishment is still murder...

2) If we kill 5 murderers who we could have locked up forever and 1 innocent person based on faulty evidence was it worth it?

teamben158

+1. It's not a lot, but it has happened where after the person is executed, new evidence comes up to prove them innocent. If it is without a doubt, I'm all for it, but with the legal system in the USA, it worries me sometimes.

citizen01

I don't know if you meant to criticize our legal system but "the innocent till proven guilty" theme has saved thousands of innocent people that may have been put to death on false terms in other countries. I don't really know what more we could do.

seattledave

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...0.html?cnn=yes

backseatchris

the death penalty is ludacris.

it absolutely sickens me that we live in a culture where it is socially acceptable to execute human beings.

And being "Texas tough on crime" is not exactly something i would be proud of any day.

krustytheclown

I think that if there is unrefutable proof that you killed someone in cold blood, you should be executed. No 20 year death row, just execute them. If someone killed your mom/dad/brother/sister/wife/husband, Im sure you would change your mind Chris.

citizen01

Since when is it ok to act on "how we feel" if it affects the lives of others. It's ok to kill somone cause they killed someone?

For those of you with kids... If your child got suspended for sheating on a test and his argument for cheating was "my friend did it first" you would tell him that it does not matter and cheating is wrong. This is no different.

backseatchris

My grandparents were both murdered 3 years ago for about $50, 2 rings, and a watch. I definately did not wish then, nor now do i wish that person to be executed. My parents made it very clear to the lawyer prosecuting that we did not want an execution to take place, and instead the gentleman was sentenced to life in prison.


Murder is murder, whether it be random or premeditated, or state-sanctioned.



I dont care if there is video evidence, DNA evidence, and a supreme court justice as a witness to a crime...there should not be state-sanctioned executions.

Crime rates are lower in other civilized countries in this world...and we are the only 1st world country with a death penalty.
The problem is we focus on the punishment for what you do wrong while everyone else focuses on the rewards of doing right.

seattledave

i think lots of people need to be put down.
Repeat child molestors and rapists, especially.

backseatchris

exactly. You have got to take all feelings out of every situation. There were A LOT of racist politicians when slavery was abolished, but they knew slavery was wrong, even if they felt different.

When a crime is bad enough that you are willing to feel better by killing someone else, emotions run high, and people get put to death because of it. Judges and Juries alike get caught up in this. Prosecutors play on the emotions of juror for the sole reason that its the best way to get what you want.