Death Penalty

[peapod]

Well I guess your right, I was thinking about executing people in general. Just like everyone else my first impluse and thought is that she should be killed, its a normal reaction to hanis crimes againist people. It enrages you. Well I don't think very well when I am engraged, I start thinking like my ancestors that ran the plains hunting the wooley mammoth.

I don't want anything to do with pulling the lever, thats all I know. It gives me a strange feeling, or as the dude would say..."its just not right man" 8)

 

[Twila]

However, if these people were actually locked up and made to do hard labor without any kind of perks, I could be persuaded to change my mind. Until that happens, and until a life sentence means a life sentence, my opinion will remain. Kill the creeps, we will be better off without them anyway.

I agree completely with you here. I'd like to see it brought 1 step further. I'd like to see their incarceration serve a higher purpose.

Some have mentioned that the death penalty is a revenge response for them. For me revenge would be a life time of punishement....To me the death penalty has nothing to do with revenge. Punishment or as a deterrant. To me it's simply removing the threat that certain types of killers pose. It has no emotion behind it. I've never believed that jail serves as a deterrent for any crime. I've known way to many who use this system to clean up and make better contacts. They look forward to the time away.....

 

[bluealberta]

Re: RE: Death Penalty

However, if these people were actually locked up and made to do hard labor without any kind of perks, I could be persuaded to change my mind. Until that happens, and until a life sentence means a life sentence, my opinion will remain. Kill the creeps, we will be better off without them anyway.

I agree completely with you here. I'd like to see it brought 1 step further. I'd like to see their incarceration serve a higher purpose.

Some have mentioned that the death penalty is a revenge response for them. For me revenge would be a life time of punishement....To me the death penalty has nothing to do with revenge. Punishment or as a deterrant. To me it's simply removing the threat that certain types of killers pose. It has no emotion behind it. I've never believed that jail serves as a deterrent for any crime. I've known way to many who use this system to clean up and make better contacts. They look forward to the time away.....

Good points. I too think the penal system sometimes is the training ground for criminal wannabes. Kind of like Criminal Theory 101. One thing that cannot be debated, though, if a person is no doubt guilty, as I call it, the death penalty makes sure he or she does not reoffend. Somehow there is comfort in that, at least to me, and I suspect others.

 

[Jo Canadian]

Good points. I too think the penal system sometimes is the training ground for criminal wannabes. Kind of like Criminal Theory 101. One thing that cannot be debated, though, if a person is no doubt guilty, as I call it, the death penalty makes sure he or she does not reoffend. Somehow there is comfort in that, at least to me, and I suspect others.

That's true blue... :lol:

When I was living in Ft. McMurray I knew this fellow who had gone to jail. He went in for the usual assult, B&E, and trafficking. Did I mention he was nuts? Either way when he got out of jail did you think he learned anything from his mistakes. Of course not, He called it college for criminals. He learned more tricks to not get caught by police, new intimidation techniques, and when he was out he had a whole new list of contacts from people he learned* from inside.

Needless to say he was not rehabilitated one bit, and more dangerous because he knew how to prey on people better.


*You must excuse my grammer, it's early and I'm tired and shouldn't be working.

 

[DasFX]

Laws and punishment for violent crimes such as rape, murder and sexual assault are too lenient in this country. The death penalty should be reinstated to deal with these types of offenders.

 

[DasFX]

I am all for life sentences for truly absurd and rehabilitation for others who can be saved.

People like to talk about rehabilitation, until they want to place one of these criminals in a half way house in their neighbourhood. Then somehow their tune changes.

 

[bluealberta]

I am all for life sentences for truly absurd and rehabilitation for others who can be saved.

People like to talk about rehabilitation, until they want to place one of these criminals in a half way house in their neighbourhood. Then somehow their tune changes.

If we kept the truly violent in jail, and had the death penalty for the truly evil killers, we would have no need for half way houses. In any neighborhood.

 

[Harris 4 PM]

I voted no.

I think that there might be a way on a philosophical and ethical level for me to tolerate the death penalty in really extreme and rare cases but there is just too much of a risk of putting an innocent person to death and thats never acceptable.

I think it has some shaky ethical ground in the first place though telling society that murder is the worst thing one can do and then turn around and do it themselves.