The death penalty scores!

[Mazer]

Yeah, you're right. If I actually was sentenced to life in prison I'd probably have second thoughts about it. However, I am trying to make the point that the death of a few wrongfully convicted individuals is worth it to execute the thousands who really deserve it. So if that's how the system worked and I ended up convicted of a murder I didn't commit, I wouldn't hold it against the justice system for executing me, just for convicting me in the first place. I guess I fear injustice more than death, but that's just me.

[theknife]

execute 'em. use a higher standard of proof than just "reasonable doubt", but if that can be established, go ahead and execute 'em. dunno about the deterrent factor - and the validity of the conclusions of the study appear debatable - but i do know the recidivismn rate among executed felons is zero. so if the punishment fits the crime and the proof is indisputable, off with thier heads.

[albed]

Got some french in you there knife?

There always seems to be problems with methods though. I suspect prisoners are dehydrating themselves or something to shrink their veins before lethal injection with all the difficulties they've been having.

They should have a garrote around the guys neck hooked to a little winch for backup.

[miss_silver]

We do not have death penalty in Canada.

[jcmd62]

Originally Posted by miss_silver

We do not have death penalty in Canada.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/executedoffenders.htm

Click on just a few of the "Offender Info's" on some of these now deceased scumbags. 99% of these lowlifes were habitual offenders who were paroled time after time until they graduated to rape and murder of sometimes multiple victims. Its not like there was some real question of their guilt or that they were wrongly accused. You also have to consider how many thousands of crimes these criminals got away with before they got caught for the ONE that put them away for good.

[tafkaMr.E]

Odd. It's always seemed to me that the death sentence is a bit of a let off for the criminal really. OK, it's a scary arsed prospect knowing that you are going to die but jeeze, 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.
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.

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.

[albed]

Have you spent even a single day behind bars before spouting your straight from Hollywood opinions?

Have you ever been confused about how real convicts can develop extremely muscular physiques or get college degrees while 'rotting away' in prison?

Have you ever wondered why first degree murder has that "premeditated" requirement in it's definition?

Nah, you just parrot the liberal propaganda you've learned without straining your own brain with thinking.



Anyone caught murdering "somebody you loved" would probably be laughing his ass off on the way out of the courtroom.