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awesomepants says2015-07-05T20:18:32.9050998-05:00
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Yes eye for eye.
BIGC says2015-07-06T11:32:51.6348998-05:00
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come on guys, none of us wants to have to pay with our tax $ to put them into prison and reform programs. just get it over with.
anime-arguments says2015-07-06T13:19:00.1840785-05:00
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I think that if a person has committed a crime severe enough to merit the death penalty, then the most ethical way to do it is by lethal injection. However, no death penalty should be given unless the person is deserving.
aviatr says2016-04-19T03:18:48.2418775Z
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Yes, and shots of a gun and other quick methods should be used as well.
I don't support the death penalty at all - Voter Comments
I don't support the death penalty in its current form, but I do support it as a method of punishment. The idea of a form of capital punishment that isn't "cruel and unusual punishment" is going to vary from person to person, and to ignore this is to trample on the identity and rights of that person as an individual. While some may find lethal injection humane, others will find it barbaric. It depends on the individual's fears, and currently only the state that has a say in this matter. Therefore, I think the death penalty is not constitutional because it's impossible to create a universal system of capital punishment that is not cruel and unusual to at least one individual.
To create a fair system, I think we either have to abolish the death penalty or ensure enough methods of execution available that convicted persons can choose the one most humane to them.
Four percent of people we kill in a year ends up being innocent. What if I told you to go in a room with one hundred people, all restrained, and told you to kill every single one of them? What if I told you four people were innocent? If you had any moral sense, you wouldn't want to kill anyone in that room. You don't want to take that chance. Since when have we went back to prehistoric methods of punishment? the "eye for an eye" method is archaic. We need to show that we are better than our own criminals. If you complain about the tax dollars going towards those criminals, why aren't you complaining about the buckets of dollars going towards corporations and useless wars?
Let's murder someone because murder is is wrong
I think in our society there are better and more ethical ways of punishment.
Labor, or required education, for example. People can be useful, even if you discount their humanity.
When you look at the facts the death penalty is just not worth it.
1. 4% of death row inmates are innocent. I think that the number of innocent people that our government has legally killed should be 0. And there's the problem with the argument saying only people who are guilty deserve it.
2. It costs more. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars more to try someone with the death penalty than without and it costs around $90,000 more per year per death row inmate than life in prison.
3. Studies show that the death penalty doesn't deter violent crime. Many proponents of the death penalty believe the death penalty strikes fear into those about to commit a crime, but that is just not the case. Also, if you get the stats the three states with the most violent crime all have the death penalty and the three states with the least violent crime don't have the death penalty.
Depends on the situation.
Yes if a man raped and murdered a child they should be killed in any means possible
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