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Post by nigel on May 5, 2005 9:22:31 GMT -5
I thought that I would gather some opinions from different sources
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Post by rjschwarz on May 18, 2005 15:19:08 GMT -5
Capital punishment is bad for two reasons: (1) In order to ensure you don't kill an innocent person you need trial after trial after trial. In the long run that means capital punishment costs more than putting someone in prison for life so it's not cost effective. (2) Only a handful of nations have capital punishment. The US and Japan are the only two I would consider honorable civilized nations. I don't particularly like being on the same list with the others (Saudi Arabia, Iran, China, etc).
The morality of killing a murderer doesn't bother me at all. That's not a factor. I don't think the threat of capital punishment prevents criminals from doing there thing but it certainly stops the one criminal from doing it again.
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Post by MarkG on May 27, 2005 17:17:02 GMT -5
No you don't. You just reserve capital punishment for people who are quite clearly guilty and quite clearly uncontrollable.
Ted Bundy, for example: clearly guilty as hell, impossible to control, killed and raped several more women after escaping from jail twice. There is simply no sane way to deal with someone like that other than to kill them.
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Post by raimifan on May 28, 2005 8:12:09 GMT -5
Everyone who hast done a crime should be killled that is what happens in my country (in Britain). It is the only way to makes sure that you will not be rapped or shot when you are walking in the streets.
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Post by rjschwarz on May 30, 2005 10:59:27 GMT -5
I understood England didn't have the death penalty. Please explain. England even prosecutes people trying to defend themselves these days.
Oh, Mark, I agree 100%.
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Post by wowposter on Nov 4, 2008 7:21:27 GMT -5
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