The Death Penalty

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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    inmytree wrote:
    mb262200 wrote:
    I think it's pretty easy to sit here and say you're all against it. I wonder how many would feel differently if say maybe, your young daughter was raped and murdered by some psycho. I think if someone can be accused through DNA evidence so the courts know that they have the right guy for a crime like this, fuckem.......put the fucker to sleep....for good. I don't need my tax dollars supporting this fucker.

    Also, I find it strange how many liberals are against capital punishment but yet still support abortion. Some of you people really make no sense.

    I have to say, I'm with MB on this one...(minus the liberal jab)

    I guess I'm a heartless bastard as I think there are some who crimes warrant the death penalty...

    unfortunatley, the tax dollar issue to SUPPORT the death penalty is completely false. It actually takes more tax dollars to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for their natural life. That's an indisputable fact.

    And I could care less about my tax dollars when we are talking about killing someone. It's just not right. I'm not religious, at ALL, but if there is someone out there who judges us in the end, it's not US. We don't get to choose who lives or dies in this life. It's wrong. It's criminal. The US is, if I'm not mistaken, the only "free" first world nation that still does it. It's barbaric. I don't give a shit how it's done, it's still barbaric to kill someone in the name of justice.
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
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    catefrances wrote:
    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    my punctuation??? please explain that one. the first five words of my question were.. where do we stand on... and my last four words were.. do they deserve life???? not dont they deserve life??? if your comprehension skills are lacking thats not my problem. all steve had to do is ask me but instead he asked an accusatory question and questioned my logic.

    easy, Cate, easy. But asking "do they deserve life?????" with that many question marks tells me that you are insinuating they DON'T deserve life. Again, I said I was glad we misread you. My comprehension skills are just fine, thanks.

    No need to get nasty about it. Jeez.

    this is not me nasty. trust me on that. and i use multiple question marks cause one gets lonely. its a quirk thats all.

    fine, you weren't being as nasty as you could have been, but there's no need to insult me. it demeans you and your arguments.
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  • rebornFixer
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    Byrnzie wrote:
    O.k, so everyone except you.

    As for violent resistance against occupation and the death penalty, maybe you can explain to me how they are the same thing?

    They are not the same thing ... That was an example to illustrate the dangers of making assumptions. People could have asked what she meant by the question. I admire people like Starfall who retain their moral compass even in the face of massive tragedy, but many people probably cannot accurately state that their feelings on this sort of an issue would NEVER change.
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    unfortunatley, the tax dollar issue to SUPPORT the death penalty is completely false. It actually takes more tax dollars to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for their natural life. That's an indisputable fact.

    Just to play Devil's advocate for a moment, do you have stats to back that up? Seems counterintuitive, although I've heard that argument before. Execution is expensive due to all the appeals and the associated processes?
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    mb262200 wrote:
    I think it's pretty easy to sit here and say you're all against it. I wonder how many would feel differently if say maybe, your young daughter was raped and murdered by some psycho. I think if someone can be accused through DNA evidence so the courts know that they have the right guy for a crime like this, fuckem.......put the fucker to sleep....for good. I don't need my tax dollars supporting this fucker.

    Also, I find it strange how many liberals are against capital punishment but yet still support abortion. Some of you people really make no sense.

    I have to say, I'm with MB on this one...(minus the liberal jab)

    I guess I'm a heartless bastard as I think there are some who crimes warrant the death penalty...

    unfortunatley, the tax dollar issue to SUPPORT the death penalty is completely false. It actually takes more tax dollars to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for their natural life. That's an indisputable fact.

    And I could care less about my tax dollars when we are talking about killing someone. It's just not right. I'm not religious, at ALL, but if there is someone out there who judges us in the end, it's not US. We don't get to choose who lives or dies in this life. It's wrong. It's criminal. The US is, if I'm not mistaken, the only "free" first world nation that still does it. It's barbaric. I don't give a shit how it's done, it's still barbaric to kill someone in the name of justice.

    for the record, the tax dollar thing is not an issue for me...I just happen to think the d.p. is warranted in some cases...
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    inmytree wrote:
    for the record, the tax dollar thing is not an issue for me...I just happen to think the d.p. is warranted in some cases...

    Why?
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Byrnzie wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    for the record, the tax dollar thing is not an issue for me...I just happen to think the d.p. is warranted in some cases...

    Why?

    because...
  • catefrances
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    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    this is not me nasty. trust me on that. and i use multiple question marks cause one gets lonely. its a quirk thats all.

    fine, you weren't being as nasty as you could have been, but there's no need to insult me. it demeans you and your arguments.

    i wasnt nasty at all.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    If you try to explain the death penalty to a child, their innocence being true sight, they do not understand.
    This concept of killing a human being because that human being killed another human being and we do so because killing a human being is wrong. So if it is wrong to kill a human being then the punishment of killing a human being is wrong.
    Follow? ( I use more than 1 ? when I'm confused) am I a bit confusing??
  • _
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    rebornFixer wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    O.k, so everyone except you.

    As for violent resistance against occupation and the death penalty, maybe you can explain to me how they are the same thing?

    They are not the same thing ... That was an example to illustrate the dangers of making assumptions. People could have asked what she meant by the question. I admire people like Starfall who retain their moral compass even in the face of massive tragedy, but many people probably cannot accurately state that their feelings on this sort of an issue would NEVER change.

    No one can ever know for sure that their feelings on ANY issue would NEVER change. Feelings are complicated like that. That doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to make laws based on we believe to be right and wrong.

    Also, I admire Starfall as well. And there are many other people out there who have experienced similar tragedy and are still against the death penalty.
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    inmytree wrote:
    I guess I'm a heartless bastard as I think there are some who crimes warrant the death penalty...

    Okay, let's say some crimes do warrant the death penalty. How do you reconcile the possibility that the wrong person could be convicted of the crime?
  • rebornFixer
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    scb wrote:
    No one can ever know for sure that their feelings on ANY issue would NEVER change. Feelings are complicated like that. That doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to make laws based on we believe to be right and wrong.

    Agreed. Capital punishment was abolished here quite a while ago and I have no problem with that. I do find it interesting that many polls on the topic show fairly high levels of support for capital punishment, which probably does speak to a pervasive perceived need for revenge in society. Not a great state of affairs, although I can also sympathize with victims whose lives are ruined by psychopaths (and I am not using the term psychopath as a catch-all term for murderers in general ... I mean that small subset of criminals who probably cannot be rehabilitated).
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    pandora wrote:
    Follow? ( I use more than 1 ? when I'm confused) am I a bit confusing??

    :roll:
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    rebornFixer wrote:
    Johnny Sitar wrote:
    unfortunatley, the tax dollar issue to SUPPORT the death penalty is completely false. It actually takes more tax dollars to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for their natural life. That's an indisputable fact.

    Just to play Devil's advocate for a moment, do you have stats to back that up? Seems counterintuitive, although I've heard that argument before. Execution is expensive due to all the appeals and the associated processes?

    no, I don't, but if my boss wasn't looking over my shoulder, I could surely find some. I read the actual stats a long time ago. yes, it is the endless appeals process and all that is involved with making sure the person is indeed guilty before they get executed. I'm sure the actual act of the execution is fairly cheap.
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    scb wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    I guess I'm a heartless bastard as I think there are some who crimes warrant the death penalty...

    Okay, let's say some crimes do warrant the death penalty. How do you reconcile the possibility that the wrong person could be convicted of the crime?

    exactly. you can never know. even DNA isn't the be all end all in all cases. What if someone who was raped and murdered by a total stranger was found to only have one type of semen in them (their boyfriend or lover), so that person was convicted of the crime, all because the rapist/murderer wore a condom? The boyfriend has "defensive" wounds on him because he and his woman liked to get rough?

    Think about it. Unless it's caught on video, there's NO WAY to be 100% certain that someone is guilty.
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  • rebornFixer
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    I think I find the moral arguments against the death penalty more convincing than the "possibility of a mistake" argument. I agree that mistakes are possible, but they are also possible in terms of people getting life sentences, and one might argue that the endless appeals process actually makes mistakes less likely in capital punishment cases as compared to life prison sentences. I have no stats to back that up, but I'd wonder. Obviously it would be horrible to execute the wrong person, but its also horrible to confine an innocent person to prison for life, and maybe its better to just concede that state-sanctioned executions are horrible from a moral standpoint, period?
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    rebornFixer wrote:
    I think I find the moral arguments against the death penalty more convincing than the "possibility of a mistake" argument. I agree that mistakes are possible, but they are also possible in terms of people getting life sentences, and one might argue that the endless appeals process actually makes mistakes less likely in capital punishment cases as compared to life prison sentences. I have no stats to back that up, but I'd wonder. Obviously it would be horrible to execute the wrong person, but its also horrible to confine an innocent person to prison for life, and maybe its better to just concede that state-sanctioned executions are horrible from a moral standpoint, period?

    The difference is that life sentences are reversible; death is not. I agree that the immorality of it should be enough to convince us to not do it, but for some people it's not.
  • inmytree
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    scb wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    I guess I'm a heartless bastard as I think there are some who crimes warrant the death penalty...

    Okay, let's say some crimes do warrant the death penalty. How do you reconcile the possibility that the wrong person could be convicted of the crime?

    ok...few years ago, I was in a training for work, a police officer told a story of a murder that happened locally a several years ago...a truck driver picked up a working girl, without getting too graphic, he reached up inside her a pulled her guts out...I'm not making this up...

    that's the sort of fucker that deserves the death penalty...

    other upstanding folks that come to mind are high profile bastards like J.W. Gacy or Dalmer...or that guy in Cleveland who had the dead bodies all over his house...
  • rebornFixer
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    scb wrote:
    rebornFixer wrote:
    The difference is that life sentences are reversible; death is not. I agree that the immorality of it should be enough to convince us to not do it, but for some people it's not.

    Yes and no ... Obviously death has more than a little finality to it, but someone's life can be utterly ruined by a life sentence that does not get overturned quickly enough. I will concede that at least a life sentence does afford the opportunity, though.
  • g under p
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    inmytree wrote:
    scb wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    I guess I'm a heartless bastard as I think there are some who crimes warrant the death penalty...

    Okay, let's say some crimes do warrant the death penalty. How do you reconcile the possibility that the wrong person could be convicted of the crime?

    ok...few years ago, I was in a training for work, a police officer told a story of a murder that happened locally a several years ago...a truck driver picked up a working girl, without getting too graphic, he reached up inside her a pulled her guts out...I'm not making this up...

    that's the sort of fucker that deserves the death penalty...

    other upstanding folks that come to mind are high profile bastards like J.W. Gacy or Dalmer...or that guy in Cleveland who had the dead bodies all over his house...

    I understand what you're saying and even though I'm against the death penalty I felt no loss to the likes of ......

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