Do you believe in the death penalty for serial killers?
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Not just serial killers but ALL murderers and rapists and molestors
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The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent and has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.\nNo I don't believe in the Death Penalty.\nCheck out the link below for more information.
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Hmmm. Personally, I don't believe in Capital Punishment, if that's what you mean. I don't think it's the government's place to kill people. I believe in justice, not vengeance for our legal system.\nRevenge is a personal matter, not a matter for the state.\nIt is unreasonable to expect the state to kill someone for you. You want him dead, do it yourself. Someone killed your daughter? You want him beaten to death? You do it, and then find a way to get away with it.\n\nFor me, vengeance is carried out by the one wronged, or not at all.\nNow, as for how I would carry out my revenge for some horrible wrong done to me or my loved ones. I don't think it would be prudent for me to go into details, but I probably wouldn't kill the person, but leave them in a bad way, so that they would have a long long time to think about what they had done while they have to have a nurse wipe their @ss, and while she's doing it (something she has done for years for many people) she will think "my god, this is the most horrid job ever." as she holds back vomit. And she would have to smoke a cigarette after work with jittery hands and try so desperately to forget the image of what is left of a human being, but she can't because it's etched into her brain and her dreams of him awaken her at night and in a cold sweat, and she will always remember the remnants of the man in the hospital bed, who no longer looks like a man. And he will always have a pain, somewhere, a different pain in a different place everyday, so that it never dulls and he never gets used to it, and he can never ever forget who he wronged because that pain is always there.\nThat would be my revenge.
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Pro capital punishment, I just think they shouldn't stay on death row for 12 years... yes, a few innocents may have been put to death, but thousands of lives have been saved.\n\nIf life in a cell was worse than death then most criminals wouldn't fight the death penalty ;)  Most do even after 10 or more years on death row...
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The Death Penalty is a harsh sentence, the harshest that society can give, but I support it.\n\nIf a person killed 15 people then how can his one death pay back that crime?  Why don’t we kill him 15 times!  You can medically induce a heart attack and then bring them back with a defibrillator.  Of course this would be cruel and unusual punishment and it would be illegal according to the 5th amendment.  The Death Penalty has been challenged several times in the Supreme Court on the grounds of it being cruel and unusual punishment, it has been upheld each time.\n\nI have mixed feelings about the Death Penalty.  People claim that it isn’t a determent to crime; people still murder each other.  I also think that that it is used too often, my state is famous for it.\n\nHowever, the Death Penalty does have some advantages.  It is the ultimate determent for the murder.  John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer, will never kill anyone again.  Even if he was given a life term for each person that we know he killed, he would still be a threat to his guards and other prisoners.  What’s to stop him from committing murder in prison?  Are you going to give him another life term?  That wouldn’t be a determent.  And if he should escape then he will go back to murdering people again.  However, if the Death Penalty was a possibility then he might think twice about committing another murder.  We can’t ask him if this is so, because he is dead, and I think that is a good thing.\n\nCharles Manson is as crazy as ever.  He built a “family” and inspired them to go on a killing spree.  Charles Manson wants to do nothing more than to incite hate and violence.  To that end he has had a tattoo or brand of the Nazi symbol placed on his forehead.  If he escapes from prison there is no doubt what he will do.  He will start another “family” and send it too off on a killing spree.  Manson has even said he will do this.  If he were dead, killed by the Death Penalty, then that wouldn’t be a threat.  As it is we have to keep him locked up for the rest of his natural life.  He is a threat to his guards, other prisoners, and a continuing threat to society itself.  We can’t kill him though because he didn’t go on the killing spree himself, he only inspired it.  Meanwhile I have to spend my tax money to help support him for the rest of his natural life.\n\nThe Death Penalty has its advantages.  It is something to hold over prisoners.  If they murder another prisoner then they could have to face it.  It also prevents us from supporting a prisoner for the rest of his life.  That’s a cruel fact, but true.  It will also prevent a murderer from ever killing again.\n\nWhen the Death Penalty is applied it should be done so only as a last resort and under special circumstances.\n--  First a higher standard of guilt should be met.  The jury must be sure, beyond a SHADOW of doubt that the accused is actually guilty.  A murderer can be convicted if beyond a REASONABLE doubt the jury considers him guilty.  A higher standard should be held for the application of the death penalty.  Just how stringent that standard should be is up to the Judge’s instructions, and the jury.  Also our legal system is based on the idea that we would rather not convict 100 people, if that means convicting 1 innocent person.\n--  Second the person should be considered a continuing threat to society.  A man who finds out his wife is cheating on him and then kills her, may not be a continuing threat to society (unless he gets married again).  He may be unstable and should be sentenced to a long prison term, but I don’t think he should be subject to the Death Penalty.  The ultimate penalty should only be applied only to people who are likely to murder again; preferable only to people who have committed multiple murders and proved that they will kill again, if given the chance.\nIn some states there is another condition that can cause the Death Penalty to apply.  In New York it is call
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If murder is wrong, then how can states justify murdering the murderer? I think in some cases some criminals deserve to die...however I believe that is too easy of a punishment...I believe they should just be locked in a small, windowless room with a hole in the floor to use the bathroom for the rest of their lives.No excercize...no tv...no mail..no human contact at all...bread and water to sustain them, but nothing more...let them die alone in a dark room and then burn the body.
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I have always wondered that..\n\nI think that people who are going to be put to death for murder, should be done so only by the victim(s) families or loved ones, then I would be able to see some sort of justice out of that
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I believe in life in prison without parole for those criminals that have proven to be an ongoing threat to society.  I think it costs us far more to execute them than it would for us to keep them locked up forever.  However, the death sentence does not bother me.  I believe there are people who cannot be changed and that they are evil.  The sex of the person does not enter into it for me.  Would I carry out the execution?  I would not take the job.  If I were forced to do it, or the person would go free?  I would execute them.  My fear in letting them go would be that they would kill again or harm a child.  I couldn't live with that on my conscience.  Anyway I didn't sentence them to die.  I just carried out the sentence of the court.  Of course this answer is based on what I know of the courts of the U.S.A.  I would not carry out a death sentence in another country.  In some cases the sentence may have been handed out simply for being a Christian.
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Yes. if a person can actual bring themselves to rape, molest, ect. a child they dont deserve to live.  in my opinion they should get the death penalty because they dont fuckin' deserve to stay in jail so we the tax payers pay to keep the sorry mothafucker alive
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I am! Generally, I do not support the death penalty but, this situation makes it difficult to think this guy should get off with just life in prison.
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Violent rape and child molestation deserve the death penalty, though I'd settle for life sentence.\n\nRight now we have sex offender lists to protect the public against these people who have been let out of prison. What kind of sense does this make? \n\nWe make the lists because they are still dangerous; but if they're dangerous, why are they out of prison?\n\nI say, just kill them all. Problem solved.
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Of course your question might be phrased a little off, because the death penalty IS legal in some states.\n\nMy personal opinion is it should be legal in all states.  I kind of differ that I do not belief it should be shown or made a big deal out of, glorifying it in the news, etc, though that is normal human nature I guess.\n\nThe reason I believe in the death penalty is there are some people that are so dangerous they will continue to do what they do whether they are in prison or not.  And those that have prison terms have been dealt the fairest justice exacted upon them, and the risk of dying at the hands of another would be reduced by the death penalty I believe.  I also believe the families deserve closure.
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Please keep in mind that what some criminals do to their victims is much worse than the death penalty.  Many victims who were tortured and raped repeatedly for years while being held captive in makeshift dungeons would have welcomed a swift death rather than what they experienced.  Many people think that the death penalty is too good for some of those criminals.  They would prefer subjecting them to the same torture they perpetrated on their victims.  But doing that would be inhumane, and, in essence, they would be lowering themselves to the level of the criminals.  So, they try to show some compassion by providing them with a more humane penalty--a quick death rather than a slow one involving torture.  Although I'm not a religious person, I think it's interesting that the Bible recommends an eye for an eye.  Maybe that's why church and state are separate.  If the church were running the justice system, I fear penalties would become worse than the crimes.  If you don't think so, look at the Middle East where  women are stoned to death for committing adultery or having sex out of wedlock.  So, when you look at the death penalty from that perspective, it doesn't seem so bad--well, unless you're the one on death row, I guess.  My opinion is that the people justly receiving the death penalty probably deserve worse, and should consider themselves fortunate.  \n\nYes, my country, USA, has the death penalty (in many states).\n\nYes. In my opionion, Sadam Hussein deserves what he got (and worse).
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I certainly think that some people that are in favor of the death penalty are people that would murder as they have no value of life. Yes it is barbaric and wrong to lower your morals to that of the alleged perpetrator.
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Hi,\n  If I knew that a homicide had been committed,and did not report it, I would feel as though I were as guilty as the person that committed the crime. For me,my conscience would not let me live with that, and I would HAVE to report it.\n   Now,having said that. If the homicide were a situation in which,say someone were molesting a child,or trying to murder some loved one,or an innocent person. I'm sorry to have to say this,but I'd commit the homicide myself!.\n    I am a Christian,and if a person has committed a heinous crime against an innocent person. And it can be proven,absolutely,positively,without question that the person is guilty,then they deserve the death penalty.That is my opinion.And,if there are witness' that saw the killing take place,then spare us tax paying citizens a long and ridicules trial,and put them to death.\n    Excellent question,and there are as many answers as there are scenarios.\n      Take care and God bless.
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it all depends on the situation for me in my opinion the only people that should get the death penalty are child killers and sexual predators who molest children. AND in some special circumstances like a serial killer or maybe a drunk driver who killed innocent people because he or she was drunk.
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Actually, it's either yes or no.\nSerial killers may kill in one of these reasons:\nMoney,\nRevenge,\nMentalness,\nTerroism\nGetting Dared (which is very like IMPOSSIBLE)\nAccidental\nSuicidal Terroism\nSome serial killers may be the nicest, caring people in the world, but might need revenge. For example, say that you have a mean enemy, and one day killed your pets. (This is not a clear example, sorry) And you would like revenge. But, some serial killers are. In an experiment, scientists found out that 58% of the serial killers kill people because of mental illness, such as hearing voices, or hallucinations. \nI hope this helps you.