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Originally Posted by tafkaMr.E

Odd. It's always seemed to me that the death sentence is a bit of a let off for the criminal really.

Let off?????Really.......You do realize that people covicted of "MURDER" can receive sentences as light as 5 years? The "death penalty" isn't handed out like lollipops at the bank. It is usually only handed down to habitual violent criminals whos prior prison terms obviosly didn't "bother" them enough to stop them from committing further violence. Others that receive the death penalty are ones who commit extremely heinous and brutal crimes against both adults and CHILDREN, usually multiple times before they are caught.

People that can repeatedly rape and murder without remorse lack the conscience required for their acts to have any "negative" mental effect whatsoever on them "for the rest of their lives". The only negative effects these people will experience is being caught. Their acts don't bother them walking the streets and they aren't going to bother them in prison.

Furthermore you seem to be clueless to the fact that our prisons are full of violent rapists and murderers who received "life sentences". When you get "life" you are not segregated from the prisons "general population" like you are when you receive "death", and are rubbing elbows everyday with inmates convicted of non violent crimes like drug possesion. It is a proven fact that a majority of these extremely violent criminals "get off" sexually by "reliving" and "fantasizing" the murders and rapes of their victims, not just with masturbation but also by having sex with and even raping other inmates.

Execution is final.......hardly a "let off". The real "let off" is life in prison. 3 meals a day, having a television in your cell, internet access, visits from family, having everything that you took from your victims and their families. The only thing "lifers" lose is their freedom.

Originally Posted by tafkaMr.E

OK, it's a scary arsed prospect knowing that you are going to die but jeeze,

Scary??? You sound like your talking about an amusement park ride. I'm pretty sure being strapped to a table knowing your life is about to end is a little more intense than scary.

Originally Posted by tafkaMr.E

if it was me and I had a choice between spending every day between now and the day I die behind bars or putting an end to it all I know which i'd prefer. That said I can't say for sure I'd have the guts to go through with it when faced with an actual real choice.

BULLSHIT!.....easily said being that your not strapped to a table and about to DIE! How are you so sure "which you'd prefer" if you aren't even "sure you'd have the guts to go through with it" ? ........you aren't and you wouldn't.

Originally Posted by tafkaMr.E

Also. I'm 100% certain that if anybody murdered somebody I love I would want them to rot in jail for the rest of their lives and live with what they had done.

100%....Even knowing that the person has no remorse or lacks any conscience about murdering your loved one. Will spend the rest of his life watching TV, using the internet, playing basketball with his homies, getting visits from his loved ones and even fantasizing and reliving the murder or rape of your loved one to sexually gratify himself? I'm quite certain that you haven't had a loved one murdered and that should it happen, that percentage of certainty you so boldly threw out would start dwindling fast.

Originally Posted by tafkaMr.E

As for the death sentence being a deterent. Murder is very often not a considered act carried out by someone who is thinking about the consequences.

Once again you are either completely clueless or you just conveniently choose to ignore the fact that murder is very often not carried out by someone having the human conscience required for their acts to negativly effect or "bother" them mentally. Yes as painful of a realization as it may be for you a very large percentage of violent human beings can dismiss murder or rape from their minds as easily as what they ate for breakfast.

Do you really believe that most murderers are tossing and turning every night unable to sleep because they are tormented by what they have done????????.....jeeze

The scumbag being executed is most definately being "deterred" from further acts of violence. Life imprisonment definately doesn't deter others and allows the convicted to continue his violence in prison. Then there is always the chance that some idiot governer running for re-election can commute a life without parole sentence to life with parole so we can parole yet another covicted murderer to go out and murder again.

Bottom line is there are thousands more convicted murderers in our prisons and paroled walking the streets of this country free than have been executed.

I don't buy into that politically correct load of crap that the death penalty is supposed to be a deterrent. It is punishment pure and simple. I think its quite obvious that our legal system waits until it is well past warranted before they finally sentence someone to death. Way too many innocent people have died at the hands of previously convicted violent criminals.