Death Penalty

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I think that Death penalty should be used as little as possible. If can, not use it at all. For example a man goes on a rampage and kills a few people. He, IMO should be locked up in the solitary confinement for a long time. But executing him is like a preset. It's the easy way. If you execute him, he won't suffer for what he did. Let him rot in horrid conditions.

In case of mass murderes like Hitler, I think Death Penalty is okay because those guys are usually too risky to keep alive for long.

What is your views on Death Penalty?

Edit: Wait, now I have been thinking about that a little more. Sure, I still think taking lives is wrong. But, prisoners that aren't executed do their time and quite a few don't change their ways after they are out (ergo, new prisoners are added every day and old ones get busted again and again - or just roam the streets with their crimes). So, that means prisons fail at reducing the number of criminals.

Is your goal

Prevention of further damage

Reconstruction of a damaged person

Retribution

??

no one has the right to decide whether a life is valid.
it can be correct to remove a person from the free world, but it is never correct to remove their life from them.

I am against the death penalty.

I like the death penalty in principle. In practice, however, it doesn't get applied evenhandedly.

If the frequency of executions by race seem unfair, check out the application of the death penalty for murder based on the race of the victim.

A Short Film About Death. Watch it.

I oppose the Death Penalty, it costs much more to administer than life imprisonment, when it's applied the cases very infrequently are nearly certain enough to come anywhere near to justifying a life taking, and it sets a bad pattern of brutuality throughout the culture.

Master Pedant:

"it costs much more to administer than life imprisonment"

Unless you mean moral cost, surely it does not NEED to? "Take this man outside and dispose of him" Or are you figuring in productive work the prisoner may be compelled to do?

I have a wonderful idea, let's give the state the power to kill. Cause whenever the state earns a new power it always uses it for good.

I disagree with the death penalty.

I don't disagree with the death penalty because I think that no one has a right to take a life per-say, but because I think if someone has done something bad enough to warrant a death penalty then it's a MUCH harsher punishment not to put them out of their misery by putting them to death. I'd rather see some mass murdered locked up for life, their freedoms removed, or them contributing in some way by working behind bars or helping us understand what makes a person 'evil', and that they should have to live with what they've done - I think putting someone to death is just an easy way out for them, it is not a punishment but an end.