Capital Punishment?

[Yoshi987]

This has been a hotly debated topic:
What are your views on capital punishment (the death sentence)?
Do you think it's a good way to get rid of murderers, or is it killing a killer to show that killing is wrong?

[Goomba Smackdown!!]

I don't really view the death sentence as a punishment really. It's like, they would be giving you a life sentence, but you are so dangerous, that no one would want to ever risk you escaping from federal prison, or even risking what you would do to other inmates. In my personal opinion, the life sentence is worse than the death sentence. But, for general safety...

[Mario15632]

This has been a hotly debated topic:
What are your views on capital punishment (the death sentence)?
Do you think it's a good way to get rid of murderers, or is it killing a killer to show that killing is wrong?

Killing a killer to say that killing is wrong? That's saying that the executioners are like hypocrites...

[benoit489]

A life for a life is immoral. Let them sit in jail or try to rehabilitate them.

[Goomba Smackdown!!]

^ If it was a death sentence, it would be more like, a life for twenty lives. :\

[cheat-master30]

I think a life sentence is actually a better punishment because it's harsher in the long run. Plus, if they're innocent (proven that later), you can quite nicely release them, apologise and not as much harm done (until we have the equivalent of bringing back people from the dead, capital punishment is a horrible punishment on this account). Plus, as said, you can rehabilitate them, and they can have something to do if they're bored, like write a book. This is one reason for one I'm pretty much never going to live in the US, because I hate the punishment, and don't want it to occur to anyone I know.

[Zexis]

It depends. You'd have to do something pretty bad to deserve the death sentence. Lethal injection. Electric chair. Hangman. Whatever it may, loss of life is the ultimate punishment.

Let's say you have a man that kills twenty people. Just because he feels like it. Not a crime of passion. No medical illnesses. He just planned out a mass murder, carried it out, and was captured. He feels no remorse.

That man is a danger to the public. He killed twenty people. He isn't going to change his ways. He's a cold-blooded killer. He might even try to kill other inmates.

Give him death.

If you're going to kill someone in cold blood, you know what the consequences will be. You didn't care. You did it anyways. And murderers shouldn't be allowed to serve a sentence less than the price of what their victim paid.

[cheat-master30]

To me though, I think death is a minor punishment, and one that gets them out of punishment quickly (and with certain kinds of criminals, it's what they want because they'd see themselves as some twisted form of 'martyr'). Maybe real punishment then would be 100 years in prison with no light, bread and water, no outside communication then death at the end of those 100 years. Plenty of time to pardon them if necessary, and the worst of both worlds.

[kyledude92107]

This is one reason for one I'm pretty much never going to live in the US, because I hate the punishment, and don't want it to occur to anyone I know.

I'm at a loss of words here. -.-

[Mr.L]

If you do Death sentences life will become like Sparta. It would be Madness. I do know killing is wrong, but we're just as bad as the killers if we kill the person.

[Zexis]

This is one reason for one I'm pretty much never going to live in the US, because I hate the punishment, and don't want it to occur to anyone I know.

I'm at a loss of words here. -.-
XD

So what do your "friends" do in their spare time, cheat?

[cheat-master30]

Nothing illegal. Just I don't particularly like the American legal system, and if I don't like a country's legal system, don't expect me to stay there longer than a 1-2 week vacation.

[Mario15632]

So why don't you like it? We are a democracy, and our legal system seems fine to me. Specify. Is it the execution thing that bothers you, Cheat?

[Goomba Smackdown!!]

It isn't like the capital punishment is a common thing. There were *checks* 37 people killed by electric chair last year. It's not like it happens by the hundreds.

[Zexis]

And you've got to do something pretty darn bad to get the sentence anyways.

Discussing R0Ms won't get you killed in America, cheat. Even murder often justs land you in jail :/

[Chrisjh0223]

I believe that capital punishment is highly justified.

Let's say you have a man that kills twenty people. Just because he feels like it. Not a crime of passion. No medical illnesses. He just planned out a mass murder, carried it out, and was captured. He feels no remorse.

That man is a danger to the public. He killed twenty people. He isn't going to change his ways. He's a cold-blooded killer. He might even try to kill other inmates.

Give him death.

If you're going to kill someone in cold blood, you know what the consequences will be. You didn't care. You did it anyways. And murderers shouldn't be allowed to serve a sentence less than the price of what their victim paid.

That is so true Zexis. By killing off the killer, everyone knows that he/she is no longer capable of that, whereas if they're kept alive in prison for a life sentence there's a chance they will break out and go on more rampages.