What are two sides of the death penalty? ( Archived) (171)

i have to agree with you.. there are some that deserve it .. but the case has to be 100% sure ... or the states looses ..

Good point.....unfortunately not 100 percent of them killed in the first place!!!

Absolutely. Here is where the death penalty should be implemented without argument. If one is convicted of a crime or crimes against humanity of the most heinous, inhuman kind that merit a term or terms of imprisonment well beyond the span of human life, they should be executed: forfeiture of life.

And it is in NO WAY inhuman or barbaric to lie down on a bed and be put to sleep. Almost all of us will most certainly die a far more painful death!!!

The death penalty MUST be reinstated. It is the strongest deterrent of the most destructive, detrimental and terrible human behavior there is.

It is NOT a punishment, it is a forfeiture of life. It is not murder, it is removing someone from their earthly concerns - and people like them from ours!!!

There are people sitting in prison serving over 600 year sentences today in the most pathetic dilemma of law and enforcement in history!

Of ‘mercy’ to the detriment of mankind. We are becoming like deers who have sympathy for the crocodiles who eat our own cubs!!!

Rest assured that I for one would drive the plunger of the syringe into their inhuman arms with as much pressure and speed as possible, so they might feel a little ‘tweak’ of pain before they drift off into the bliss of nothing.

Love thy enemy; someone here reminds of throw momma from the train, btw; is it hard to do? you bet, but we must; God requires it; and he also judges us by our very own standards, so no hypocrisy there. jmo

Am firmly against the Death Penalty.. read Helen Prejean Death of Innocents.. even if who she refers to represent a small minority of people who face death row.. the price is far too high...imagine being locked up in your room/apartment/house (with all the amenities) for 6 months and not being allowed to go outside the door.. multiply that by 80 and picture having to do it in a grey stone building with basic facilities.. prison is punishment enough.. and at least if the person does turn out to be wrongly convicted they can walk out alive

The death penalty is not a deterrent.. as long sentences aren't a detterent to Drug Lords... people who do heinous acts that you speak of are either not right in the head or fanatics!!.. the Death Penalty existed in almost all Criminal Law Jurisdictions in the world at one time or another.. it never made a difference, that is why in the last number of decades, most jurisdictions have abolished it..

the people that are wrongly convicted, especially in this day and age are minimal.

ever hear of collateral damage? The government does it all the time.

I think that they should not stay on death row for a long period of time, through trickery of laws wording. They should be faced to a firing squad-problem solved.

This post may make some queasy and some upset, but have your family, or a child killed by these sociapathic creatures, and your views may change.

In Michigan, we had a man actually kill his wife, take her body to the factory that his father owned, hacked up her body in small pieces using the equipment. He got second degree murder for that. He was having an affair with the au pair, which booked to Germany the night before that happened. That man will be available for parole in his lifetime.
Tell her family and her children that is a fair thing to do to him.

We do not have the death penalty in Michigan.