the death penalty

KO282453 wrote:

ive worked w/ more than a few guys who have been in prison, it's not nearly as bad as people percieve from what i take, yes you've lost your freedom , you can't say when or what you want to do, no women, but once you become accustomed to that, it can be cathartic, the regiment and programs and learning become your life, i've heard a lot of postitive things from people who needed prison to turn there life around. Also my dad was a Correction Officer for 35 years, so i've heard my share of prison stories. But some M.F.er's just NEED to die.

polaris_x wrote:

ed243421 wrote:

inhumane?
let's take a walk in someone else's shoes for a moment
let us say polaris, you have a child, and some "human" murders that child.
and you happen to live in a state that will give this "human" the death penalty
would you really feel that would be a inhumane act to put him or her to death?
which of the two is the "real" inhumane act?
i feel when someone murders another, that someone has lost all rights
all we have in this life is our life
one chance
how is it you can feel that if one person murders another, the murderer has any rights
i do not

although i answer hypothetically ... as know one truly knows how they would react ... i say that i would still be against the death penalty ... it's a value-based answer ... i don't support wars ... i don't support sanctions on civilians ... it's not a matter of whether this individual has a right to live ... simply that killing this person does nothing except perpetuate that killing someone is ok ...

your point of view is fairly narrow ... i mean how do you define murder? ... what do you call it when an army drops bombs on civilians? ... no one ever asks for the death penalty against the general who called for the air strike ...

there is context to everything ... circumstances we may or may not understand ... in the end, you have to ask yourself what kind of world do you want to live in? ... a world where death is the solution to all that ails us? ... or one that is based on compassion?

chadwick wrote:

hitler & his monsters... why didn't anyone stop it way before it got out of hand?

John Briggs 2008 wrote:

he still stands wrote:

Here is an alternative to the death penalty:

For all violent crime offenders (murder, rape, etc) we set aside a few hundred square miles of land somewhere in some wasteland (somewhere in Texas or NM or Oklahoma) and fence it off. They can set up their own society within those walls and continue to kill and rape each other if they want. No more need for prisons or discussions of the death penalty. Problem solved.

Seems like this was done once in history. I little island called Australia if I recall correctly. Didn't quite turn out as they had hoped.

blackredyellow wrote:

Once again, I think that death penalty is the easy way out for these sick fucks...

Put him him a tiny cell with pictures of the crime scene on the walls of his children he killed... see if that drives him insane. Only let him out to get gang raped and beat by other prisoners.