1. What are you even talking about here.
2. You have no idea what you're talking about. Again. 90% of what I write, or respond to, causes me to laugh my butt off. Absurdity is part of humor.

hkbajwa, I admire your attempts. But it has been tried before. It is futile; not to try and change his mind but to attempt to get him to be more open minded and civil. However nice your post will be, you will be personally attacked. I've just learned to ignore people and their comments like that. To only prove my point, read Jefferson's reply to this.

Give Cindy a hug for me.
Stand strong, brother! Power to the people, man!

Yeah Jeffersons a stubborn one. How old is a minor? Could we be able to lethal eject 2 year olds? Physco. I say 16 and up should deserve the death penalty. The brain is still developing and studies have shown that the frontal lobe which is responsible for judgement is still developing. But sure give minors way harsher sentences but the death penalty for them is just idleheaded.

The death penalty is tight if you like killing innocent people and discriminating policies.

It is also often believed that proceedings in the death penalty trials are so meticulously carried out that there is not an iota of scope for error and in practice it is impossible to send an innocent man to death. However, there is no such a thing as 'foolproof' trial as long as human beings are working in the courtrooms, investigating the questions of guilty, testifying, calculating the evidences, or even passing judgments! There is always a possibility of making mistakes and those mistakes have happened several times even during the last few years! Convictions of the people because of wrong or faulty grounds are not fiction. For example, according to some studies, only in the USA, around 100 people been released from a death row because they have afterwards found innocent. It is also common that after getting more proofs, accused are found to be not guilty for the same crime for which they were convicted and it is possible that murder changes to manslaughter, and that one could invite death penalty while other does not. If an innocent person has been sentenced to prison, it is, at least in theory, possible to compensate the wrong judgment passed on that person by releasing him and compensating his lost with money. However, once a person is sentenced to death, then it is final, there is no chance to compensate him even theoretically! In death penalty cases, the probability of being sentenced to die is not the same for everyone. In theory, equality before the law is guaranteed in constitutions and in international conventions all over the world, which is great if it would work well. However, several studies have found that in death penalty cases, the likelihood to be convicted is much higher for the poor, less educated, ethnic minorities and religious minorities, as compared to the privileged individuals who have been accused of similar offences. Some studies have found that from 80 to 90 percent of the death row inmates are from minority groups and as many as 95 percent are classified as poor. Also, death penalty may be used for political reasons as well. Infact, there are so many possibilities of this kind that only when it is abolished from the law can a person be sure that the death penalty will not be used against him for the wrong reasons.

Having said that I still agree with the death penalty although I think it should be for people who are unbelievably obviously guilty. DNA. Videocamera. You name it. And for people who have murdered numerous times. Serial killers , rapists (more than once) should all be put to death.

The death penalty also costs more than life in prison.

Well, what if there was a cheaper way to kill people? What if we just did away with all of this pseudomedical garbage and did things the old fashioned way?



How much does a rope cost?

All humor aside, I am mostly against the death penalty. I don't feel that it is a deterrent (statistics back me up on this), and I think the government killing one innocent human being accidentally is terrible. And they've done it. Being cleared post mortem is kind of pointless.

On the other hand, I do think that some criminals should be punished severely. For example, I think that rapists and pedophiles should be chemically or physically castrated.

It has to be an OSHA approved rope - so the rope itself will probably cost upwards of $50,000.