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  • #1

    Are you for or against capital punishment?

    This is my first non-hypothetical question on the OT forum! Its quite strange, really...

    Anyway the question is very simple, do you support capital punishment, and if you want, say why or why not.

    EDIT: due to spelling error...
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  • #2
    I'm against capitol punishment. Capital punishment is another matter though.
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    • #3
      Im from Texas - enough said....

      I also wish the united states used corporal punishment. You flog those rapists dozens of times, and well see if they do it again. I doubt it. Beat criminals like dogs, and you will teach them a lesson they should never forget. The US prison system would probably go from grossly overcrowded to just under capacity in just a matter of a couple of years.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DinoDoc
        I'm against capitol punishment. Capital punishment is another matter though.
        hardy har har....
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        • #5
          Originally posted by DinoDoc
          I'm against capitol punishment. Capital punishment is another matter though.
          You'll have to excuse Dinodoc. He's from Mississippi.

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          • #6
            I am for capital punishment and I got a good reason to be. I am sick and tired of murderers being let off with just prison time and the possibility of parole. In Spain, a couple of terrorists got sentenced to 400 - 500 years in prison... hmm.... wouldn't save money just to have them executed? Too bad my country outlawed capital punishment but I am hopeful they will bring it back.
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            • #7
              wouldn't save money just to have them executed?
              Oh dear...the amount of things that you could justify with THAT flawed logic

              anyway on with the traditional "Two wrongs dont make a rights" vs. "Eye for an eye"...


              Two wrongs dont make a right

              more to follow

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Fez
                I am for capital punishment and I got a good reason to be. I am sick and tired of murderers being let off with just prison time and the possibility of parole. In Spain, a couple of terrorists got sentenced to 400 - 500 years in prison... hmm.... wouldn't save money just to have them executed? Too bad my country outlawed capital punishment but I am hopeful they will bring it back.
                Unfortunately in the US it costs more to put criminals to death due to legal costs. I still support the death penalty though.
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                • #9
                  I'm for in, in theory. In the US though, the system needs a major overhaul.
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                  • #10
                    No, the government's got no right to decide who gets to live and who gets to die.

                    Besides, it's not a very civilised practice and it's no better then the crimes that it punishes.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Zulu Elephant


                      Oh dear...the amount of things that you could justify with THAT flawed logic

                      anyway on with the traditional "Two wrongs dont make a rights" vs. "Eye for an eye"...


                      Two wrongs dont make a right

                      more to follow
                      Well these are murderers we are talking about. And I understand you liberals don't like punishing murderers... well that is your opinion.

                      My logic is hardly flawed.

                      No, the government's got no right to decide who gets to live and who gets to die.
                      A jury does.
                      For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                      • #12
                        I think that people should die if they offend anyones social values.

                        That way not only will the prison population go down, but so will the entire country! We could apply it to the world at large, since we (the U.S.) are way tougher than wimpy countries like, FE, Spain. It's eco-friendly!
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                        • #13
                          Against, when society can be reasonably protected against criminals in other ways (as in indefinite imprisonment).

                          When you have the choice, and choose to kill, you murder.
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                          • #14
                            liberals don't like punishing murderers
                            A recent poll taken by CNN in association with Reuters found that, when asked "Do you think murderers should be punished?", 98 out of 100 liberals replied "yes". The 2 remaining answered "no" in a very sarcastic voice.

                            Suffice to say, they are checking their results as they seem to conflict with a statement by Fez.

                            Fez... *pauses to wonder how best to put it* ... that was a REALLY stupid comment

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Osweld
                              No, the government's got no right to decide who gets to live and who gets to die.

                              Besides, it's not a very civilised practice and it's no better then the crimes that it punishes.
                              Oh, ok, so the murders can have that right.

                              The death penalty is a double edged sword, it is both a punishment and a deterant. I am sure the one thing that will ever keep me from killing someone (in the US that is) is the knowlege that I myself will be killed.

                              I'm for in, in theory. In the US though, the system needs a major overhaul.
                              This is sad and too true. The system needs to be madfe more efficient and less flawed. To many innocent men, greatly due to racism of juries and such, have been put to death (one is too many). This is the only meritous arguement I know of aginst it.
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