[Clawandfang]

Hey, I was just wondering what other people on this forum thought about Capital Punishment. I personally feel that in extreme circumstances we should still use it, like treason during wartime or the such. What do others think?

[Nuke]

i think that breathing should be a capitol offense and that everyone who engages in such activities be shot on sight.

[Clawandfang]

i think that breathing should be a capitol offense and that everyone who engages in such activities be shot on sight.

Including yourself?

[WeatherOp]

i think that breathing should be a capitol offense and that everyone who engages in such activities be shot on sight.

Including yourself?

Nuke is not a human. You must be new here. 

[Clawandfang]

Nuke is not a human. You must be new here. 

Fairly, yes.

[Rictor]

Capital punishment is fine, because it's sure preferable to rotting away for 50+ years in a tiny cell. That way, society doesn't have to keep paying for someone it doesn't want around to begin with, and the offending prisoner gets to die with a measure of dignity. A proper death, befitting a man and not an animal. Given the choice, I'm sure that most people would choose a quick death over a slow, numbing, bleak one.

Although I must say that lethal injection is a crazy way of administering that death. It's proven to be needlessly cruel and complicated.

[Kazan]

it's a waste of time and money - it costs more to execute someone due to the appeals proccess than it costs to keep them locked in solitary for the rest of their nature life.

the later of which I consider more punishment

the idea of "Capital punishment as a deterrent" is simply laughable when you think about it

furthermore look at the number of people incorrectly put on death row - at least one state has completely suspended executions because of this (illinois IIRC).   

The death penalty is also consistently racist (and no before you say "that's because they commit more murders" .. no.. it exceeds proportionality by a significant amount)

basically there is nothing good about it.

[BlackDove]

It's wrong when it's on the government level. Government sanctioned murder is retarded.

If the bereaved wants to execute, after the criminal has been found guilty, then they should be given the opportunity to. It requires a different system though, which means I think the current one is wrong.

[Nuclear1]

Keep it for the military and the truly incorrigible, but ban otherwise.

[Kazan]

If the bereaved wants to execute, after the criminal has been found guilty, then they should be given the opportunity to.

because revenge is the same thing as justice

It's wrong when it's on the government level. Government sanctioned murder is retarded.

so in your revenge system the person doing the revenge killing is then charged and convicted of murder.
then the other family kills them

cycle of violence

or they're not charged with murder and it's still government sanctioned murder

It requires a different system though, which means I think the current one is wrong.

yeah... the system of revenge is seems

[Admiral_Stones]

Give out capital punishment to capital stupidness (Republicans).

[Kazan]

Knowingly undermining the constitution of the united states should be considered treason   that covers your post.

[BlackDove]

If the bereaved wants to execute, after the criminal has been found guilty, then they should be given the opportunity to.

because revenge is the same thing as justice

It's wrong when it's on the government level. Government sanctioned murder is retarded.

so in your revenge system the person doing the revenge killing is then charged and convicted of murder.
then the other family kills them

cycle of violence

or they're not charged with murder and it's still government sanctioned murder

It requires a different system though, which means I think the current one is wrong.

yeah... the system of revenge is seems

Why did you do that?

[Kazan]

do what?

point out the problems with your statement?

[BlackDove]

No, you didn't point out the problems. We both know what you did. Now I'm going to take you like a dog, and rub your muzzle into the **** you took on the floor.

Why did you do it?

[TrashMan]

furthermore look at the number of people incorrectly put on death row - at least one state has completely suspended executions because of this (illinois IIRC).   

The death penalty is also consistently racist (and no before you say "that's because they commit more murders" .. no.. it exceeds proportionality by a significant amount)

Maybe in the US of A.
I'd avoid bashing capitol punishment as a whole.


I'd reserved it for only the biggest offenders in cases with overwhleming evidence.

[jdjtcagle]

child molesters = capital judgment

[karajorma]

It's wrong when it's on the government level. Government sanctioned murder is retarded.

If the bereaved wants to execute, after the criminal has been found guilty, then they should be given the opportunity to. It requires a different system though, which means I think the current one is wrong.

It would also give people related to convicted murderers a reason to harass, intimidate and eventually seek revenge against the family of the victim which doesn't currently exist. Having the government do it means that there is no one person to seek revenge against. You got the death sentence because that is what is the proscribed punishment for the crime.

[Nuclear1]

Capital punishment - cutting off one's capitus, or head. Death penalty.

Capitol punishment - forcing someone to sit through a session of Congress. Death penalty.

[castor]

Killing someone, except in the case of immediate self defence, is a criminal act in my books.
Legal systems should fight crime, not commit them.