• I've never understood people against the death penalty.
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Hi guys, like in the title, I don't understand people who say the death penalty is bad. Is this some kind of warped sense of morality that leads you to this conclusion? I think that the death penalty should be applied in only extreme cases (murder and a few other cases). However, so many of you people say that they deserve to rot in prison. This doesn't make sense, the government spends millions of dollars every year to maintain a livable environment for people who have murdered somebody else. Saying that letting them rot for life before they die is foolish, these people aren't "suffering horribly" in jail. We are wasting money on these scum that could be spent towards charities, helping the homeless, towards scientific advances. If you are religious, these people will have an eternity to suffer in unimaginable pain at the hands of your creator, if you are an atheist, you are probably going to be practical enough to recognize how foolish it is to waste money on people who are going to be dead eventually anyways, why waste money on these people when it could be going towards something valid? I try to be respectful of everyones opinions, but people who say the death penalty is wrong pretty much go on my moron list with few exceptions. Tax payers shouldn't have money go out of their pay check every year to cover the expenses of these people who should be executed the second the crime is confirmed. So Facepunch, I'd like to see some evidence showing why the death penalty is bad. I can honestly think of zero GOOD reasons to keep certain individuals alive when they've committed unspeakable acts of evil.
Wrongful convictions are way too common. Death row inmates often say they're looking forward to being released from the torture that is prison, what with rape and such.
Mostly because there is almost never a 100% chance of the charges being true, so what if you end up frying the wrong guy? Have that on your conscious. For example on Nat Geo there was a show on wrong convictions and crap, and they were talking about how this guy got life in prison for murder, then 20 years later they found out it wasn't him, but some other guy (Who had already died of old age by then). So he spent 20 years in prison for another person's crime. If he had gotten the chair, he would have died for another person's crime.
Doesn't work as a deterrent, wrongful convictions, just plain evil to kill someone who could've otherwise been reformed.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;16270473]it costs more to kill than to hold dont ask why[/QUOTE] I have a strong feeling you are wrong.
Also, lethal injections can be botched quite easily, leaving the prisoner in extreme pain with no way of calling out. Isn't "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" pretty outdated? We don't cut people's hands off for stealing. IIRC, it's actually [i]cheaper[/i] to lock up prisoners to execute them, not to mention we get a supply of labor. What would you prefer if you were a prisoner - 40 years getting raped every other day by Bubba in the shower, or 5 years before getting a 15-minute-long execution and never worrying about your worldly pain again?
Op: "they're only people, why keep them alive, let's just kill them like dogs"
I imagine that the mental torture of knowing for 10 years that you will certantly die but not knowing when is much worse than what the criminal did, such as shooting someone clean in the head. And what happens if you get the wrong guy?
[QUOTE=RichyZ;16270473]it costs more to kill than to hold dont ask why[/QUOTE] You know, it costs forty thousand dollars to hold a prisoner for one year. I highly doubt maybe a days worth of electricity (from an average home) to fry a person costs that much.
Because some people think it is wrong to kill someone for something you cannot be absolutely sure about. Like me.
ye it costs a lot to kill them because of lethal injection which isn't meant to be easier for the criminal, but for the executioner
Why play god on someone's life? Especially when that's what you're claiming they're at fault for.
[url]http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty[/url]
I say drop fucks in a gun men squad if they can live they can go free :P
Look through some of this slideshow: [url]http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/last_words.html[/url] It's the last words of people about to be executed. This could turn many people against the death penalty quite quickly.
[QUOTE=Oecleus;16270509]I have a strong feeling you are wrong.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty[/url] Execution is more expensive than life incarceration.
[QUOTE=Solid.Snake;16270544]You know, it costs forty thousand dollars to hold a prisoner for one year. I highly doubt maybe a days worth of electricity (from an average home) to fry a person costs that much.[/QUOTE] They dont fry people, they stopped that in the 80's They lethally inject people with three very VERY expensive chemicals. One puts you to sleep. One Makes it so you cant feel anything while asleep. One kills you. Painfully without the other 2.
i'd rather die than spent 60+ years in gayhell, deathpenalty is overused, but judging by what i hear about spaceshortage in USA, they will have to either ban private weapons or start burying prisoners.
In some places in America, life expectancy on Death Row is higher than outside of prison, I shit you not.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;16270588]I say drop fucks in a gun men squad if they can live they can go free :P[/QUOTE] I say we put them in an arena with other convicted criminals. each with a melee weapon of their choice. They can choose: A Broadsword A battle axe A Shortsword and shield whoever the two are that are left must beat eachother to death with their bare hands.
[QUOTE=smurfy;16270508]Doesn't work as a deterrent, wrongful convictions, just plain evil to kill someone who could've otherwise been reformed.[/QUOTE] I agree. Though it's rare, some people can completely redeem themselves later in life. Besides, what's worse? Being killed off and relieved of everything, or living with what you've done? I'm sure there are more suicide attempts in prisons these days than actual executions.
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