Which do you prefer for Zacurias Mooussaoi: death penalty or life in prison?
488870
Death-and that's just the beginning of  his eternity.
892459
you're quite brave to say this with anger still inside after he took your daughter from you!\n\nI also don't believe in the death penalty, we are not ones to judge whether we take another life too...\n\nas for the so called "luxuries" that prisoners get, it's called humanity!\n\nBUT one things for sure, they can't just wake up and get into their car and go for a drive to the shops, go to their friends place, see a family member, go to a movie, picnic... or even decide on a vacation.\nThey cannot join friends in another social gathering...\n...they cannot get up and help themselves to the refridgerator.\nCan't phone anyone they like when they like...\n\nThey ARE in prison, but how awful to know you are held captive in a cell only to be killed off eventually!
1132558
I am in favour of a death penalty.  If you want to believe that a life sentence is going to teach a murderer anything, then YOU pay for it.  If you want to pay room and board for a prisoner for the rest of his/her life, you're welcome to try, but you have no right to ask someone else to do it.\nImprisonment means you and I are forced to take care of criminals, and for those in the habit of taking by force, what better life can you imagine?  Abolishment of the death penalty is every dishonest person's dream.  It's the path to a life of coercion with impunity.  It's become far too easy to forget about the victims.  What about their rights?  The issue of victim's rights also reveals the fact that many crimes have no victims... ask yourself why victimless crimes are illegal (after all, cops and judges need to look busy, don't they?)\nTo those who claim prisons are cheaper-- what planet are you on?  Keeping murderers and rapists in prisons is only cheaper than, what, keeping them in mansions?  Thanks to the INjustice system, we have a ridiculous number of innocent people doing time.  In a horribly misguided attempt to regulate business and morality, prisons are full of people guilty of illegal, but not immoral, acts: smoking pot, trading stocks at the wrong moment, selling sex, gambling, etc.\nThe real problem is confusing legality with morality.  If you kill someone, and it was NOT self-defence, you have forfeited your right to be alive.  That fact doesn't change from place to place, but laws do, obviously.  In some countries, you could be put to death for being gay or an atheist, but in those cases the executioners are the murderers.  Blaming wrongful executions on the death penalty is like blaming a shooting on the gun.  If we're going to save innocent lives, we have to fight the religions and governments that destroy those lives.\nUltimately, the real issue is not the concept of execution, but rather the abuse of law by the corrupt and the persecution of innocents by those who make -and enforce- laws.
45251
Typically most liberals do not support the death penalty. Its OK to have views that differ from whatever political affiliation you have.
963657
Many people are in favor of the death penalty for certain criminals who are deemed worthless to society. How is euthanizing severely disabled babies different than killing a criminal? Both are making value judgements about a life.\n\nI am a liberal, and I am conflicted about such questions. Why pay to keep someone alive if they will never contribute to society? And, why keep a severely disabled child alive that will be a drain on society? But, life is precious; how can we as humans effectively decide that a life is worthless when we cannot know the ultimate outcome?
608775
Well personally I'm opposed to the death penalty for any reason...First off as a Christian I believe Jesus taught let he without sin cast the first stone...secondly in our criminal courts the rich can afford all the expert witnesses they need while the poor are being executed...sometimes innocent because they couldn't afford a great lawyer and expert witnesses
113512
A sane society kills its maniacal killers. Those on death row are beyond rehabilitation. They are beyond any usefulness to society. In hard labor for life they are a continuing burden on society. How beneficial would it be to still have Gacy, Bundy, et al still alive and in prison? Would you want these horrendous people out in public on a "crab boat" with a chance to escape? Are you for real?\n\nIt would be better to keep the appeals process from going on for 15 years, at the waste of taxpayer dollars.
472254
Life in Prison plus 20, but I think they are also considering the death penalty.
333094
People may want to consider this when making that decision -- his efforts and actions during his trial have been consistent with making the jury angry at him. He is on record as saying he wants to be killed, since that would make him a martyr.\n\nGiven the conditions in prison, is being put to death actually  a worse fate than life without parole?
101003
Absolutely! Everyone in this world has one life to live, and if for someone reason you see a reason to break the law and cause problems then you'll end up sitting in tiny prison cell waisting away part or even all of your life, what a way to live. You can miss out on all the great things in the world while in jail, once a this hits a prisoner don't you think they couldn't think of a worse punishment; other than death or sometype of injury. As for murdoc's thoughts.. An eye for an eye makes the world blind.
699052
I dont believe in the death penalty because I dont believe a government should decide when to end a life especially when more often than not, the accused doesnt have enough money to afford any decent defense.  Besides even people who are obviously guilty have the right to life only God may take it when he feels the time is right.  Life in jail is the only solution.  Remember just like in the Animal Kingdom, the strong prey on the weak so someone who leads a criminal life will ultimately offend a bigger fish.
605331
state some facts like the amount of innocent people put to death. the biases that the courts have in handing out death sentences(race, etc...)Playing god. morality of it\nI feel its done to save money. ...easier to kill someone than to pay to keep them in jail the rest of their lives.
545563
he was beaten to death in prison, which I think is better than the death penalty, because he had suffered more, rather than a painless death by lethal injection.
919897
pro/con of death penalty
167985
I think is a little extreme.But then again a life time penalty makes someone suffer much more.By killing them they only realese them
646985
No death sentence.\n\nLife in prison or not, the sentence should make him repent what he/she did and his/her painful life (not physical) should be an example to people not to commit crimes against humanity.
1144197
nope. i believe that all murderers should die. i dont wanna spend my tax dollars on their jail cell for longer than i have to. plus, what the criminals did was barbaric. shouldn't they get a barbaric punishment for what they did?