Do you think it would be best if the US allowed cruel and unusal punishment to punish repeat offenders?
494102
Sure, if you would like to amend the United States Constitution... What do you suggest? Whipping? Caning? How about forced amputations for certain offenses? Branding? If you think these are good ideas, I suggest there are certain other places to live in this world where you perhaps might feel more comfortable. Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Indonesia, North Korea... I don't think they have a problem with prison overcrowding, maybe you'd like it in one of those places.
1131892
Punishment has never been effective in the long term. Conversation & understanding will be the only way to find common ways to develop our needs together. At least I wish
285606
I think people convicted of raping and killing children should be flogged in public ( THE FIRST TIME, that would cut down on repeat offenders ).
8395
Definitely right.  Murder would be the best example of a crime that merits the punishment.
244649
Actually, they would probably be tried for murder in the country where the crime was committed.  The U.S. Government would not reward the person who did it, but they might be seen as a hero by the American people.
197879
Of course. Our penal system is absurd.
37670
it depends on what city or country your living in ..\nin singapore for example,theyre very harsh but it works for them\nevery offense has an equivalent punishment.. some would say barbaric punishment.. they say it makes the people aware that their government is serious when it comes to crime...
683268
Yes! The idea of "corrections" is "correcting" bad behavior. Rehabilitation programs are going to have a lot more success at correcting behavior than simply imprisoning them.
496677
No, no a thousand times no.\n\nAnd you don't get good information through torture!  our government has known that for 25 years.\n\nIf my child  were raped, the perpetrator should face a FIRING SQUAD, which is not torture.\n\nThe USA has crossed a terrible line it shouldn't have crossede with Git'mo and Abu Grihab.  We'll pay for this.
213555
Not good enough.\n\nHe should be tried for treason and the proper punishment meted out.
889907
I think like that, but I'm also a big fan of "punishment should fit the crime," too. For these child molesters out here who think it's okay to do kids and babies that way, they need to tie them over a fifty gallon drum and shove a fence post up their ass. Repeatedly. then cut their penis off, stuff it in their mouth, and sew their lips shut around it.\n\nI'm mean, ain't I?
1122437
Remember, this is not a "War" under our constitutional definition or under the Geneva Convention.\n\nYes, I think that they should be punished but since this is not a conventional war and is taking place where it is, they probably will not be.  After all, hasn't the Iraqi government offered amnesty to all 'Iraqis' in the 'insurgency' who have killed Americans and Iraqis?
1097642
i agree with eye for an eye, the only downside is if they are innocent then they are being punished for no reason, then again innocent people get executed even in our society... some people have been executed only to find out later that they truly were innocent... if the crime was prooven then yes I think thats what should be done!
920052
I like your line of thinking but I don't know who your talking about.\nIf your talking about saddam... I'd like to see him suffer a little before his death.\nIf your talking about a child molester your death sentence will fit them justly.\nGruesome executions like that may act as a deterrent for criminals. Lord knows jail doesn't scare them any longer. The hardened criminals are fighting to get back behind bars in the U.S.
143255
i think it should be that way but it cant because there can be no cruel or unusual punsihment  the punishment is death and the only way they do it is in a painless way  sucks doesnt it
821980
It should be reduced to a misdemeanor offense. By doing this we could cut prison populations in half.\nUS has the highest prison population per capita of any nation on earth
669385
make the punishments more severe so that lesse people do crime so less cases..faster the cases move in court