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Should The Death Penalty Be Allowed?

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It certainly isn't, but if I kill 100 people for example, I have unjustly and unfairly deprived them of their right to live. Why is it then just and fair for me to continue to live?

Why isn't it? :holmes:

Reply 21

Drummerz

Original post by Implication

Why isn't it? :holmes:

Because killing 100 people shows I have a gross disregard for human life, i failed to respect their right to live and thus there is no reason the state should respect mine. Now while I understand not wanting to have the death penalty used for every murderer, I believe the death penalty should certainly be an option for mass murderers and serial killers.

Reply 22

Implication

Original post by Drummerz

Because killing 100 people shows I have a gross disregard for human life, i failed to respect their right to live and thus there is no reason the state should respect mine.

So the state should only respect certain people's lives?

Now while I understand not wanting to have the death penalty used for every murderer, I believe the death penalty should certainly be an option for mass murderers and serial killers.

For what purpose?

Reply 23

Drummerz

Original post by Implication

So the state should only respect certain people's lives?

Yes?, it's a similar concept to prison in that prisoners do not have the same freedoms everyone else does?

For what purpose?

Why not? its an apt punishment?, you replied my first question with a question but not an answer. Why then do I deserve the right to live?

Reply 24

Implication

Original post by Drummerz

Yes?, it's a similar concept to prison in that prisoners do not have the same freedoms everyone else does?

Why not? its an apt punishment?

Why is it an 'apt' punishment? What purpose does it serve? We can't possibly determine whether or not it is 'apt' until you have specified what it's supposed to be achieving.

you replied my first question with a question but not an answer. Why then do I deserve the right to live?

I replied to your first question with a question because I feel that the most sensible approach to take is to assume people should be allowed to live unless we have good reason to do otherwise. I am asking you 'why should the state kill its people?' for that reason. Unless you think everybody should be killed until we find good reasons not to?

Reply 25

username471863

Keep that outdated barbarity in the past please. It does not belong in a free society with human rights.

Reply 26

the bear

i think it should be restored immediately.

Reply 27

Drummerz

Original post by Implication

Okay. That sounds quite dangerous. It's not really a very similar concept to prison, because the state doesn't (or shouldn't) simply stop respecting individuals' freedom. Instead, it restricts our freedom for the protection of everybody. There are good reasons for thinking that imprisonment works as a method for maintaining a safe society. Certainly most of those reasons carry over to killing criminals as well, but the difference is that killing isn't by any means necessary and it carries the unfortunate disadvantages of being more expensive and brutalising the population. And, of course, it involves killing members of society.

Why is it an 'apt' punishment? What purpose does it serve? We can't possibly determine whether or not it is 'apt' until you have specified what it's supposed to be achieving.

I replied to your first question with a question because I feel that the most sensible approach to take is to assume people should be allowed to live unless we have good reason to do otherwise. I am asking you 'why should the state kill its people?' for that reason. Unless you think everybody should be killed until we find good reasons not to?

So you're telling me, a person that killed 100 people..more realistically..10 people..does not deserve to die?...I already explained why I believe the death penalty should be used for mass murderers and serial killers in a post above. Such people do not have a place in a "civilized" society..

Reply 28

Drummerz

Original post by Drummerz

please see? what purpose would it achieve? simply to eliminate them for society. i'm curious why you seem to think a mass murderer doesn't deserve to die? are you sympathetic or...

Reply 29

username2286241

Watch the BBC documentary 'Life and Death Row' - provides examples of people about to be given the death sentence (or not), people on the death row and the moments just before they are executed and also gives a balanced view - for example they show people who you would argue deserve it and others who don't.

I cried a couple of times in them, when you look at it from the perspective of the people being executed and their families you realise there isn't one side to the story. Ironically the death penalty creates more pain.

You hurt innocents with the death penalty not the criminal. How do you think a wife, child and parents would react to their husband/father/son would react. They would be distraught.

Not only that but it's almost psychological torture, imagine being given a set date for your death as you arrive closer and closer to it, I imagine a lot would lose their minds, not to mention the families.

But of course you could say the same for the victim's family, although the point is that the death penalty gives a quick death to the criminal but slow and painful torture to the innocent family of the criminal. Who are we punishing the criminal or their family?

Reply 30

Implication

Original post by Drummerz

please see? what purpose would it achieve? simply to eliminate them for society. i'm curious why you seem to think a mass murderer doesn't deserve to die? are you sympathetic or...

What benefit does killing them give us that imprisoning them wouldn't? All I'm asking you to do is justify your position, and so far you haven't been able to do so. Why do people 'deserve' to die for committing mass murder, for example? All you seem to have said so far is 'well they've done something bad, duh. they deserve something bad to happen to them'. I'm asking you why. As a member of Canadian Parliament said in 1914,

We can argue all we like, but if capital punishment is being inflicted on some man, we are inclined to say: ‘It serves him right.’ That is not the spirit, I believe, in which legislation is enacted. If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.

As for whether I'm sympathetic, if you mean approving of or looking favourably on the criminals' actions - certainly not. Do I still have compassion for them? Certainly, and so should everyone who actually cares about human suffering and doing the right thing.

Reply 31

AlwaysWatching

No. Because the death penalty doesn't punish the criminal

Reply 32

Life_peer

Yes, I believe so. When the evidence is conclusive and there's a little chance of rehabilitation, it would save us a lot of funds, effort, and make the world much safer. If you believe all people can change, you are deluded.

Reply 33

Novascope

Nope. It costs a lot more money to keep someone on death row. Plus I really do not see the logic in killing someone because they killed someone. Plus there's the awful chance of putting someone innocent on death row. Can't bring back a life now can ya?

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Reply 34

Underscore__

Original post by Life_peer

Why do people persist with this myth that it saves money. It costs the US billions to execute rather than imprison for life.

Anyone who thinks the death penalty is a good idea, in my eyes, is devoid of humanity and a fully functioning brain

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Reply 35

Life_peer

Original post by Underscore__

Because the process is overly complicated! Are you really so thick as to think it actually takes billions of US dollars to execute someone? :laugh:

I can only return the compliment.

Reply 36

Underscore__

Original post by Life_peer

Because the process is overly complicated! Are you really so thick as to think it actually takes billions of US dollars to execute someone? :laugh:

I can only return the compliment.

So you think they just have the system they have because they enjoy flushing money away? When you're handing out such a definitive and serious sentence you will inevitably have longer trials and more appeals.

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Reply 37

Life_peer

Original post by Underscore__

Human rights organisations surely do enjoy flushing public money away… I'll let you figure out the rest.

If we catch a terrorist right before the act, we should just put her against a wall and shoot her, not spend twenty years on trials.