capital punishment

Ok answer me this straight you think we should kill the murderer because he has murdered.

Also is the death penalty a humane/ethical way to carry out a punishment, next what if we kill someone who is innocent of a crime?

Charles Manson is one of those people I wish should be sentenced to death. He is actually attempting to get out of prison. If he gets out, I would be terrified because he did not physically kill anybody. He would still be able to manipulate people into killing others for him. Also, at his age, he has nothing left to lose, so I would not put it past him to organize more murders.

As for capital punishment preventing serial killers from arising, I am not gonna fool myself into thinking that is true. I want capital punishment to eliminate the chance of a serial killer that already exists from having any chance of causing more harm. However, I believe eliminating capital punishment would see a rise in serial killings, considering that the killers would not have to worry about being put on the electric chair.

@JFK I think we should kill the mass murderer to prevent him from having any chance to kill any more innocent people. Also, he/she can do no good to society, considering most serial killers dont want to or cant be helped.

@viking Which is one of the reason I wanted it only reserved for serial killers. The chances of finding an innocent man guilty for being a serial killer are very slim to say the least.

Yeah... They only had to go to prison or a mental institution for life.(and mabye in isolation) That's just a great life right?

Why should you have to pay to keep that guy locked up. He has taken the privilege of life away from many other people. Why does he deserve that privilege then?

We could always tell the prison he raped a little child, prisoners hate pedophiles


Toast " I guess you would get murdered in prison Viking"
Viking " I fucking hate you"
Toast "Fucking Pedophile"

Because that would be like raping a person because he raped someone... Is that alright?

Joseph De Maistre, 19th Century French diplomat & philosopher.

4. Personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

@warburg If a person went on a raping spree, simply raping him would not be enough. Life in prison (at most) would be the right thing for that kind of case because it is worse than being raped and then being let off scott free.

Would any of you truly kill someone.

Yes and No, Yes in the sense i would join the military and carpet bomb the shit out of people and no in the sense i would never kill someone in cold blood.

Could you answer me or are you just going to chicken out?

Definately. If they were about to kill my family(or whatever) I'd do it.

I answered you. I posted that almost simultaneously as you posted yours. I edited the post.

That is even worse but i no where you are coming from.

Oh what a lovely and heartwarming thought...
I'll give you the link I gave KoreanPet.
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=201581&ca=Opinions

The reason why capital punishment is the best choice in this situation, is because you cant make a punishment worse than what they did to the innocent people they murdered, whereas with rape you can find a worse punishment than raping them. Therefore you equal the murders with killing that person.

I have the same position as Pope John paul the 2nd on the death penalty

Which was?

Too lazy to look up, you go do that.

Well you mentioned it therefore you should at least tell me what side he was on. If you support his stance on it, why would you need to look up what it was?

You could start torturing them. That would be worse right?
Just because a person murders another human being doesn't mean they don't have the right to be treated as a human themselves. The bad sides are what makes us human.
The whole "an eye for an eye" is totally outdated. The US is in the company of some very "lovely" countries: