| Capital Punishment Debate and defend your political beliefs on whether or not capital punishment is morally right. | |
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01-24-2005, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by RevrseTheCurse04 Capitol punishment is the one issue that I am undecided on. While part of me says that it is wrong to end human life in an act of revenge the other part of me questions why we should let a person who commited heinous crimes live? In reply to the cost of keeping a person in prison I have heard figures that show that after the numerous years in court and after all the appeals have been used by those on death row the cost of this is signicantly more expensive than sentencing a man to life in prison. However, in certain circumstances I feel very strongly that the person who commited the crimes should be given the death penalty as a retribution for the crimes commited. However, I feel that this penalty should be used sparingly and only under the most extreme situations. | Well what about the person putting the commited person to death? Isn't that murder as well? It is morally wrong to do so.  | your right Scott Peterson should live, and maybe if he's a good boy in prison we can let him out in a few years, you know because he's sorry and it will cost too much to keep him locked up for life
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01-24-2005, 09:11 PM
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Level up: 33%, 99 Points needed | | It is not murder, rather a retribution for a heinous crime. Although in some circumstances it may be excessive, it is necessary in other instances as a form of justice or retribution for the crime committed
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Level up: 37%, 35 Points needed | | The fact is some innocents are being murdered from this system. That is why we can't have this sytem. | |
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02-02-2005, 08:23 PM
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Level up: 33%, 99 Points needed | | To not take action because there is a possibility that you may be wrong is no way to make a judgement.
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02-11-2005, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by RevrseTheCurse04 To not take action because there is a possibility that you may be wrong is no way to make a judgement. | Once again, you do not listen to what I am saying. There are possibilities that innocents are killed each year. This system should not be up if this is happening.
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02-16-2005, 09:11 PM
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Level up: 33%, 99 Points needed | | so using ur logic if theres a chance that a person is innocent we shouldnt even put that person in jail and we should let him roam the streets cuz their is a chance that the person could be innocent? Explain to me how that is any different than a person who is on death row?
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02-16-2005, 09:14 PM
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Originally Posted by RevrseTheCurse04 so using ur logic if theres a chance that a person is innocent we shouldnt even put that person in jail and we should let him roam the streets cuz their is a chance that the person could be innocent? Explain to me how that is any different than a person who is on death row? | It is just morally wrong to put an innocent person to death. Well yea it is morally wrong to have a person in prison for life if he/she was innocent, but there is a possibility of later in the future proving this person's innocence.
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02-17-2005, 07:45 PM
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Level up: 33%, 99 Points needed | | It's not like the people on Death Row have a week and than they're executed. Many people on death row are there for 10 plus years exhausting all the possible defenses until finally they run out of apeals.
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Level up: 30%, 77 Points needed | | Being in the military I really can't go against capital punishment, since we don't need too much of an excuse to lite someone up, without a trial, without prison. I think prison should be like that shithole in AZ where they have a tent city, chain gangs, and have to wear pink boxers.
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Originally Posted by phil achio Being in the military I really can't go against capital punishment, since we don't need too much of an excuse to lite someone up, without a trial, without prison. I think prison should be like that shithole in AZ where they have a tent city, chain gangs, and have to wear pink boxers. | So what is it you do in the military, exactly? (This isn't meant mockingly or anything).
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I really don't like the idea of a world with prisons and official penalties (or any government over a population for that matter), but living in the United States at this point in time- I say go for it, blow the sucker out. Hell, I'd just ask for capital punishment if I knew I was guilty; better than rotting in jail forever. It's not my tax money!
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