hi, I was wondering, do any of your have a good site of death penalty..why it's unfair. some of the points? I am against death penalty nd I've  just heard on the news abbout this so i was wondering.
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Good side about the death penalty?\n\nWell...\n\nhttp://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/thoughts.html#pro\n\nTry that website for both pros and cons.\n\nThe main reason is that it's a deterrent for criminals.
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The only thing wrong about unnatural death is when it is premeditated murder/suicide... I believe that abortion (unless it is for the mother's life) is murder.  Capital punishment is one thing I haven't gotten my head around yet.  I can't decide.  I lean toward the fact that only God can judge, but I also understand the plea of the victims.
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Death penalty is the ultimate punishment.  It is not a teaching exercise.  It is a deterrent.  It works on me.  I have never killed anyone because I don't want to face a death penalty myself.
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It is ridiculous the amount of time people spend on death row in this country. We have a system of appeals for anyone who has a lawyer to continually appeal every little thing that might buy them another year in prison before their sentence is carried out. Also things are different from state to state. Some states have NO death penalty at all no matter how heinous or evil the crime was. Many criminals who deserve the death penalty are allowed to plead guilty in order to escape the death penalty and just spend the rest of their lives in prison. It is not a perfect system, and the value of a human life is still held in high regard by many people here in America (God knows why). As for Arnold Schwarzenegger, you would have to talk to someone from California to find out if he is a good Governor or not, I don't really know. I like most of his movies though.
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While if the death was in my family would make me mad, I completely am agaisnt the death penalty. I think it isn't right for the government to say "You killed a man and that's wrong, so we're going to kill you!" \nIt doesn't make sense and is unethical.
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I think that the death sentence which they still use in America is disgusting and should be banned everywhere, forever. What gives any person/government/jury the right to take another person's life away, whatever their crime?\n\nI'm not against long, long prison sentences however.
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The premise that capital punishment offers is all good, however the realities are far removed.  As part of my BA in Law and Criminology we covered a module on the death penalty in the U.S. Several facts about the death penalty and it's application are worrying.\n\nFirstly state representation in death penalty cases are usually substandard (Bright 1994).  As a result the mainly poor, black defendents are required to fight a case put together with the full resources of the state with as little as $3000 to fund their case (Paduano and Smith 1991).  The amount of funding required to fund a full defence is, at the most conservative $100,000, rising to £1,700,000 if you take less conservative estimations (Paduano and Smith 1991).\n\nThere is discrimination in the way that the death penalty is applied to ethnic minorities, with the most likely person to be facing the death penalty a indigent black person who has killed a white victim.\n\nThe cost of inflicting death on a person, when considering the costs of appeals, habeous corpus review and other elements of the case means that it is often cheaper to sentence an offender to life without the possibility of parole.\n\nThere is even research to suggest that rather than deter possible offenders the influence of an execution is the opposite, this is termed 'brutalization'.  Basically when the state executes somebody, the state devalues human life which can lead to other people following the example of the state in so much that for wrongs done against them they see the use of deadly violence as legitimate.\n\nOther objections are to do with the use of a paraletic agent in lethal injection so that the condemned is not able to show any pain and therefore any violation of his constitutional right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment cannot be seen.\n\nI also take issue with the irreversability of the death penalty, there have been many incidents of innocent people being put to death, so many infact the Illinois Governor George Ryan has put a moratorium on any exectutions in his state.\n\nPublic opinion is a tricky one.  Some poles show that people are in favour of the death penalty and some not.  This depends on the framing of the question, support for the death penalty greatly reduces when the option of life without parole is included.  In order to abolish the death penalty the federal state needs to lead from the front, once the abolition is in place then public opinion will fall into place as has happened in the UK and western europe.\n\nAs you can probably tell I am against the death penalty, mainly for the above reasons but also because no civilized society should have the need to put people to death, especially people under 18 (although the supreme court did ban this a couple of years ago, at last) and mentally under developed people who cannot understand what they are about to recieve (this is also unconstitutional, but still occcurs).\n\nThe sources below are only a brief list, however the Sarat book just below this is quite excellent and will open your eyes, a must read!\n\nFor more information see the excellent book by Austin Sarat,\n(2001) "When The State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition" Princeton: Princeton University Press, and to find out the experiences of a lawyer working in capital cases see Scott Turow (2003) Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyers Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\n\nIm just going to leave you with this to think about, as Ghandi said An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind, enough said really
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I don't know if it is solely my Christianity that has my husband and I oppose capital punishment, but we both do. \nWhen do two wrongs make a right? Why does one person have the right to end another life?\n\nmy husband lost his wife and 8 year old son to  a drunk driver, and his mother was murdered 6 months later by her second husband. Neither man did one day in jail. Was that right? No. \n\nDo we have the rights to say they should have been executed? No. punished? Yes. \n\nForgiveness is a mighty hard thing sometimes. Only by the grace of God can we forgive in such cases. That is where we are, thanks for the opportunity to share...
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I am kinda on the fence as far as the death penalty is concerned.  My hesitation is that there are alot of people that are convicted of crimes that they did not commit.  I think that alot of the problems with crime begin in the home.  We have far too many homes without a Father figure in them.  Our judical system is a joke.  When someone is sentanced to 10 years then it should be 10 years not 10 years and eligible for parole in 5 and with time off for good behavior etc..
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George Carlin is 100% correct on this one.  To paraphrase, he says that capital punishment doesn't do anything--it simply satisfies the Judeo-Christian/Biblical need for revenge.  We are so indoctrinated to believe that it is a deterrent to crime.  I personally have refused to sit on any juries, because I will never put myself in a situation where I judge another person for ANY crime!  ESPECIALLY one where my vote is needed to kill someone!  And look how often juries are found wrong themselves!  Abolishing capital punishment just might help us take a closer look at ourselves and the "whys" and "wherefors" of a completely flawed judicial system!
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well, still believes that no matter what a person did, no one has the right to take his life away from him. life was god-given and only god can take that away... putting a person in jail is reasonable enough so that he wont be able to do crimes anymore, but death sentence? i dont think so.. thats simply barbaric...
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There is a lot of information on the internet about this topic.  I just typed "racial bias in capital punishment" and 196,000 results popped up.  If you enter each type of bias you will get plenty of source material.
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when you say death penalty, i believe its hanging?\nI wonder how this one time leader would feel, if his head was severed in a market place, with crounds of jeering people, as i believe is the traditional arab way?\nWell, if its good enogh for princess's ?\n\nBut then.....didnt the us instigate all this, because he was a Barbarian, not to be trusted with long range chemical weaponry?.....but then theyve side stepped having to jail him for life themselves.....(even they wouldnt hang him, with the worlds media)...so they let someone else do it.
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I would argue about innocent people being sent to jail that turn up innocent, some of these people are put to death, what happens to those people? There are a lot of screw ups when it comes to putting innocent people in jails, especially before DNA and other research came out to be 100% sure. Look at 'Hurricane' Carter, he was sent to life in prison and after something like 30 years they found him innocent, what if he was put to death?\n\nHow can we justify killing people as punishment? Aren't we then murderers too? \n\nTry looking up information on places the death penalty has been banned and their reasons for doing so, ie Canada. \n\nThe death penalty is also very inhumane. Most of the time the poeple are killed using lethal injections however, if you look at the stats for that, most of the time the first drug they are given isn't a strong enough dosage so they actually feel their body shutting down and feel that pain while paralysed. This is feature on the show I write about below...\n\nHave you ever seen the show Penn and Teller Bullsh*t? Well they have an excellent show on this topic, I am pretty sure you can rent them now and that one is one of the first ones.
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in a way it is very ironic but I think that many people feel the same way. I know that I myself believe in the death penalty for extreme crimes but otherwise not at all. See the problem that I see with encouraging to kill themselves is that often times the people guilty of such crimes don't feel guilt for their crimes, so why would they kill themselves. I don't know guess i am rambling. Good Luck in deciding
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This is a doozy hard question.\n\nDeath penalty is not an answer because we are the killers also, if we condoned the killing of killers. In a way it makes sense for many in our society to live by the rule "an eye for an eye" but in another sense we will turn into the killers, and that's supposedly what we're trying to get rid of?\n\nIt is cheaper for the prisoners to stay in prison for the rest of their life, rather than executing them. If a prisoner has a better life among society then prison will seem harsh, death will only make it easier as then they won't be living with the guilt. But if they have a shitty life in the society, then prison doesn't seem so bad because everything is paid for in there and they live as if they never lived before. On the other hand if we kill them, we rid them of guilt and any responsibilities so it seems better to let them “rot” in prison. But yet it goes back to my point about them living an easier life in prison.\n\nSo to me, it is a catch 22 for the people involve excluding the prisoner as they are the winners in the outcome of any jurisdiction. Life in prison, or death. This probably doesn't answer the question but actually stir up more issues but I wanted to put in my few cents. =)
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Death penalty laws are social engineering. I cannot subscribe to the ethics of social engineering. As a nurse who has worked in the system with pedophiles, I know also that episodic imprisonment is ineffective. They are relentless. I support the only known ethical solution which is chemical castration.  But, then again, I believe in that for Conservatives, too.