Jul 15, 2008 09:14PM GMT
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Politics - United States
When will USA join the rest of the civilized world and abolish the death penalty?
These are the countries that carried out the most executions in 2007. That's some fine company you're in.Country Number
China 470+ (other sources est. 6,000+)*
Iran 317+
Saudi Arabia 143+
Pakistan 135+
USA 42
Iraq 33+
* Based on publicly available reports. Other sources suggest the real tally in China for example may be as high as 6,000.
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For one, its cheaper to house them forever. Secondly, we wont have any innocent people executed. Thirdly, having executions solely promotes the lust for revenge in society, which (as i said above) only propagates more violence. The law should be about deterring crime; studies have shown that having the death penalty does not decrease the number of murders. Thus, having the death penalty is purely so that people can feel avenged, or have their revenge on somebody, which is just adding more blood-lust to our already too violent society
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Answered Undecided
I think the Death Penality should never be abolished, because I believe that if you kill someone or rape someone, you should die.
No matter what, you took someone's life away and in the rape case, pride, so you should sit in a cell until prison guards come in and inject lethal poison into your veins.
Fair, right?
I personally favor the electric chair :/ -
Answered Never Ever!
I just chose this because I used to have this patch!!! Actually I'm kinda of at that stage where I am undecided. One part of me says, "Thou shalt not kill", but another part says that some crimes are just to hideous to let the person live. Let's just find an abandoned island and let them fend for themselves!!! Cheaper on us taxpayers! -
Yes yes a very good idea! But I dont think we have any spare islands.. If we do, I would gladly support the idea. But then again whats the difference with leaving someone on an island with a bunch of other murders, most of whom will not survive, or just saving time and killing them? Either way we are sending people to there death. But if we have an island, we should try it, see how it turns out.
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"and the victims never had that chance!"
So we should stoop to the level of the murderers?
I don't want to sound like I'm blowing smoke up my own ass here, but think about this: who's viewpoint (yours or mine) promotes less violence in society?
I believe that murder should be left solely to the murderers; you feel that murderers should be killed. Its pretty clear that your beliefs include more violence than mine. So the question you need to ask yourself is... does violence propagate more violence? I believe it absolutely does. If you have a society of people who think that murder is never ok (society A), contrasted with a society where the people think that murder is sometimes ok (society B), society A will undoubtedly have less murder over time. Therefore, not having the death penalty will in the long run lead to less violence (given that over time, it will convince normal people such as you to think that murder is never ok, no matter what the circumstances) -
no thats wrong. the death penalty came about as a deterrent to horrific violence. given the nature of humans you will never have a violence free state.psychopaths and sociopaths seem to be regular people until they kill.what would be the point of keeping something like that alive at taxpayer expense for who knows how long.when you kill you lose your right to live.
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Answered Never Ever!
The USA (federal) doesn't have a death penalty, THEY leave it up to the states. Where I live there is no death penalty. Bottom line, it costs more to house a prisoner on death row (40K per yr?) than give them life in prison. Problem is our 'other' laws that allow multiple appeals, greedy attorneys, and simply not being strict enough. If you want no death penalty, move to another state, simple, and you can vote on it. -
Answered Never Ever!
Thwere are crimes committed that deserve the death penalty. And as much as I like and respect you Henrik, this is an issue for Americans and their conscience. You hurt my child with violence or rape or several other offenses you die in my opinion. You kill a loved you you should forfeit your life. I carry a gun because if you assualt me or a loved one I am with you will not have to worry about the death penalty or even a trial. This goes for a starnger in danger as.I see nothing civilized in cage a vicious animal at the expense of society for life. To me that is crueler.