What is Capital Punishement?
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Death Sentence = Capital Punishment
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“ ... The fruit of my experience has this bitter after-taste; that I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted against a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishmnet, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge... “ \n\n  ( Albert Pierrepoint, British hangman until his resignation in 1956, from his biography, Executioner Pierrepoint. )\n\n\nPlease find below related informative websites.\n\n\nAustralian Coalition Against Death Penalty\nFacts and Fallacies, Questions and Answers, Methods of Execution, Lethal Injection: The Naked Truth, Australia and Capital Punishmnet, History of Death Penalty\nhttp://acadp.com/\n\nAmnesty International \nCountry reports, facts, statistics\nhttp://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalt...\n\nWorld Coalition Against Death Penalty\nCreated in Roma in May 2002, the Coalition gathers NGOs, Bar associations, unions, local governements, all kind of organizations who are attached to the struggle against death penalty and want to coordonate their efforts of lobbying and action in an international level\nhttp://www.worldcoalition.org \n\nDeath Penalty Information Center\nArticles, reports and statistics about death penalty worldwide.\nhttp://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org\n\nClark County Prosecuting Attorney\nLinks to over 1,000 death penalty related web sites\nhttp://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/link...
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Well, the person punished won't do it again.\n\nSeriously, capital punishment doesn't work as a deterrent for the simple reason of politics.  When a person is sentenced for capital punishment, there are endless appeals, retrials and whatnot to delay the punishment. On average, a person on death row will more likely have their sentence converted to "life imprisonment" then be executed. Added is that the prisoner is kept warm, dry, fed and clothed at taxpayer expense.  So, if someone was contemplating a capital crime, they're looking at two options...\n\n1) They get away with it.\n2) They get caught, and spend the rest of their life no longer in the rat race of daily society for food, clothing and shelter.\n\nWhat's the deterrent? \n\nIf the government wants capital punishment to work as a deterrent, they need to be decisive and carry out the sentence as soon as it is proven beyond reasonable doubt of innocence.  If you know the person is guilty, why let them linger on for years?  If they're guilty (either admitted it or similar), get it over with.  Then capital punishment will have teeth again.
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It depends from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but on a basic, functional level, first degree murder means murder with premeditation (thought, care and planning rather than spur of the moment) and capital murder is a subset of first degree murder that a jurisdiction has designated as particularly heinous and hence death-eligible.  For example, in Texas, murder of a child under 6 or a peace officer is considered capital murder.
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Capital punishment is called for in many cases...this should be one.
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I am not a lawyer, but I have some experience in the law.  \nDon't know which state you are from, and that would make a difference.\n\nWith jail budgets getting tighter and tighter, many institutions are opting to pass some of the costs on to the inmates in the form of fees and such.  Whether this is legal in the jurisdiction you are from is whether there is a state law and/or county ordinance to permit it.\n\nOn the second part of your question reference punishing loved ones, it depends on what "punishment" is done and how it is being done.  Contact the Sheriff or jail administrator as they may be able to explain what is going on.  Don't go in making vague accusations of corruption without some evidence and supporting documentation. Ultimately, you may have to contact a local attorney in your area.\n\nDear Old Dad
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There are not exact, predetermined punishments.  In each case the punishment is determined by a judge, or if a plee bargain is made, by mtual agreement of denfese and prosecution.  There are statutes that proscribe minimum and maximum sentances for different crimes, but it would be simply ridiculous to try to list the statues for every crime here.  If you would like to know the statutory punishments for some specific crime, repost a more specific question.  You would also to well to mention what country you're talking about as it does make a bit of a difference.
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Capitol punishment does not work as it is now. Punishments must be public, swift and severe in order to deter. Public hangings detered.\n\nPay per view electric chair a week after your last appeal...say give you 1 year tops to finish the process. Now THAT would work.\n\nOf course, the innate flaws to our "best attourney wins" court system creates the potential in which innocent people may get executed before the time in which their innocence may be proven. This is the unfortunate finality that comes with capital punishment. But capital punishment can work. However, without swift, severe punishment that is viewable by future criminals, capital punishment will not work, and does not work in our society (20 years on death row? ridiculous)\n\nI found myself torn in the case of Tookie Williams recently on this very topic. If Tookie was executed 23 years ago, there would not have been public outcry to save him. Sure he maintained that he was innocent of the murder of the 4 people he was convicted of. But who really believed it (clearly not the jury), and furthermore, that was simply the one crime he was brought to court on. God knows you don't form one of the most prolific gangs our time has known without taking out a few people in your way, and a few people for the hell of it probably too.  Beyond that, the Crips that he founded have gone on to kill likely in the thousands. So he should have been executed (provided you believe in capital punishment to begin with), no question, and it should have been a walk out of the court room straight to the chair. \n\nBut our system is flawed, we let him sit on death row for more than 2 decades and during that time he may have rethought his life. He did some great works trying to use his position to influence kids to make the right choices, the choices he didn't make. Now we choose to execute someone that is in the midst of making a positive influence of our kids instead of the thug that brought many children to hell with him.\n\nIf you execute him in 1982, many good works don't get done, but if you do it publicly, you may send a more real message, and save many kids and their victims for years to come. After 20 years, we probably shouldn't have executed him at all. It was a waste, two fold.
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The purpose of the capital punishment is to eliminate the worst criminals from society. It is meant to be the ultimate penalty and is reserved only for those committing the most heinous crimes of violence and murder.\n\nEach person is given certain rights and responsibilities at birth. It is the individual’s responsibility regardless of circumstance to make the best of life they can. Society in general doesn’t have the resources to rehabilitate even less violent criminals let alone the hardened felons that commit murders monstrous enough to be assigned a death sentence.\n\nThe evolution of the soul is a theory not shared by the general population of the United States. Many believe that evil exist and is beyond rehabilitation. It may be that God can redeem these lost souls, but it is obvious that it is beyond modern man’s skill and technology. Society is better served by simply eliminating these convicted murders from all chance of ever repeating their offenses.
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Being sentenced to the home. Similar to house arrest. You can't leave the house, except maybe for work and/or appointments.
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Silly question.  People are punished for all kinds of unjust reasons.  It's like asking why do bad things happen to good people or something.
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Capital is money that you have in the bank   and assets are goods or property owned by you !
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Only capital crimes are given the death penalty.  ALL capital crimes involve murder to some degree.  So, no, rape in and of itself is not punishable by premediated murder by the state. Oops, I mean, the death penalty.  BTW, there is a website you can visit to see all of death row inmates in Texas.  Tells you their crime and when it occured.
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agree let's make it a capital crime the death penalty isn't used enough in this country.
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Probably going to have to re-word your question or at least add some additional information here.  I know I don't have a clue what you're asking, and it doesn't look like anyone else does, either.\n\nTry explaining more about this, and include the state you're in.  Also probably be a good idea to explain more about what you mean by the penalty differing from what's in the penal codes.  If you're only charged so far, there's no penalty because you haven't been convicted yet.
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In a capital (death penalty) case, all jurors must vote for the death penalty.  This is usually a three step process - the first step is the guilt phase.  The second phase determines whether the factors that led to the guilty verdict warrant death, and the third phase is for the jury to determine whether the defendant should be put to death, based on the findings of the first two phases.  Again, though - it must be unanimous.
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Try these: capture, holding, imprisonment, incarceration\n\nI hope that's what you meant.