"criminals are wicked and deserve punishment." Write for the motion- debate?
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Our legal system is based on following theories:-\n                        1.   Punishment is not to take a revenge for the wrong done by the criminal but to give a chance to criminals to reform himself.\n                        2.   Sometimes the crime is so grave that it shocks the moral conscious of society then it is necessary to give exemplary punishment to the criminal to deter others from doing such criminal acts.\n                        3.   Some criminals are beyond the reformation stage and they enjoy doing their criminal acts. For eg. serial killers, pyschopath . Then it becomes necessary to protect society from such criminals.\n                        4.  In the end it also give a satisfaction to the victim that his revenge is over.
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As best I could.\nThat is the only way the system is fair.\nWhy ruin something good over someone who is evil?
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There a lots of great ways to start this paper.  If I were writing it, I would probably start out with some interesting statistics and maybe even tell the story of Governor George Ryan (IL) commuting all the death sentences in Illinois before he left office a few years ago.  Or you could open with a couple of stories on both sides of the argument.  Good luck writing this.
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WOW!  Well put and well said.  You are so right.  I am so sick and tired of hearing their whining and BS that "they only want a better life" no matter what crime they commit.  That seems to be standard response number 1.  Clearly, there is a huge double standard.
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Republicans rightfully worry about each equally, because each is equally bad and equally needs to be stopped.  It's just like the matter of letting criminals such as the murder O.J. Simpson go scot free or convicting and punishing the innocent.  Despite the many statements made by our so-called "Founding Fathers" (in reality blithering idiots) and frequently reinterated by the membership of the Association of Criminal-Lovers United (ACLU), sending an innocent man to prison is NOT ten times worse than letting a guilty man go free.  The two are equally bad and equal action should be taken to prevent each.  That is NOT the fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans.  The fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans is that while both mean well (which is a very good thing), Republicans exercise much better (albeit not perfect) judgement and therefore DO much better.  As for Jesus, he never existed and would have been a jerk if he did.
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"Unlawful" is awful, and "illegal" is sick, \n\n...hardy har har ;-)
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LEAVE THEM TO PUBLIC.\n\nHEAVY PUNISHMENT AWAITS FOR THEM IN HELL.
970770
Can you say "Death Penalty, then deportation" in a pine box
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I say, sentence them to life in prison and put them in our worst supermax prison and keep them in the general population with a t-shirt that reads: "I'm a terrorist and kill innocent women and children." \n\nSurely the guards will turn a blind eye to whatever unfortunate things happen to a convicted terroist.  I think we would find that there is still honor among thieves.\n\nMight not deter anyone, but what will?
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Latin.\n\nTranslation: "Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to."\n\nI agree.  For example, the worst mass-murderers like Stalin or Pol Pot do not, in my opinion, deserve to live.
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Once convicted and sentenced they should be sent to the 'hard core' prisons, not the 'country club' prisons that most who have been sent away go to. That certainly would set a terrific example to any politician contemplating\ncorruption.
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I'm one of those people who you would probably want to move along (and aside from this issue and a few others, I'm very conservative), but I ackowledge that this is a Democracy and I am in the extreme minority on this issue in America, so I sort of accept the death penalty. Personally, if I did a heinous crime, I'd want to die instead of rot in prison, so in my eyes, "Lock the door, throw away the key" is worse than "fry the b_stard". But in spite of my opposition to the death penalty, I don't get worked up about someone who committed a terrible crime being put to death. So given that, these are the crimes I think warrant the worst penalty we dish out:\n\n- Murder (substantiated by either strong evidence- multiple witnesses, confession, video, or DNA).\n- Rape (1st offense for strong case).\n- Selling or distributing drugs to minors (2nd offense). If you distribute to an adult, I don't consider that a crime. If you distribute to a child, that's a serious offense.\n- Any kind of terrorism plotting.\n- Treason.\n- Any sexual activity with a child(below 13 would be a good age).\n- Any violent crime involving a weapon- first offense. None of this "three strikes, you're out" b s.
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What alternate justice system would you recommend? Or is this a statement against the death penalty? If so, why don't you just say so.\n\nWould it be better to let a guilty person that had raped and murdered you daughter/wife/mother go free?
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I don't know but in a crime like that, sheer stupidity deserves 5 to 10.  Everyone should get a piece of the cage.  But for brutally murdering the English language, you should get an extra 10 years in solitary with nothing but a dictionary.\n\nI hope this answer just changed a life.  Peace.
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Disagree.  They did the crime and they need to do the time...all of it!
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What crime ? : the real criminals were his accusers : they were extortionists.  And the prosecutor was trying to make a name for himself : he was beaten and shown to be incompetent instead.
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killing is not wrong\n\nmurder is wrong\n\nDeath Penalty is an option\n\nexecuting murders for their crimes is both retribution, a deterrent, and makes sure (at least) that that person won't be killing on the streets again.\n\nIf some folks say that it's not a deterrent, then fine, - it's retribution, I'm comfortable with that.