I am 100% against the death penalty. It is fallible, inefficient, inhumane, and increases state power. Government can hardly be trusted with healthcare, yet most conservatives think it's a good idea to entrust them with the power to take someone's life?
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****ing A.Absolutely, positively strongly support, we don't use it nearly often enough.
I don't believe it right to kill someone who is not currently presenting a threat, not even if it were Hitler.
If we're going to have it, can we save the hundreds of thousands it costs and just put a $.30 cent 9MM into the back of their head immediately?
the difference is the the Constitutional allows for capital punishment with due process.
Personally, I think maintaining the life, at perpetual taxpayer expense, of a human being who has proven himself to be little more than a rabid animal is both illogical and unreasonable.
You don't know what "rationalization" means, do you?
no...
That's pathetically self centered and without an understanding of what justifies the existence of society itself.
The death penalty is in the news again in America because states are turning to new, untested drug concoctions to use for lethal injection, and sometimes the drugs being used in executions cause complications and prolonged dying. There was a case a few months ago out of Ohio, but the story coming out of Oklahoma seems the most controversial yet. It actually delayed another man's execution.
A link to the story is below...
So do you favor the death penalty?
Do you think the death penalty will last in America considering the declining availability of traditional lethal injection drugs?
Oklahoma’s horrible ‘botched execution’ shows again why the death penalty should be abolished
What is "pathetically self centered" about it?
What "what justifies the existence of society itself"?
Heya SW.I am against the death penalty except for extreme and some unusual case. I don't believe in the Right of the State or Government to put people to death.
A jury of your peers decides your fate, the government only carries it out.Personally, I wouldn't mind if the victim's family got to decide the punishment and carry it out.
The death penalty is in the news again in America because states are turning to new, untested drug concoctions to use for lethal injection, and sometimes the drugs being used in executions cause complications and prolonged dying. There was a case a few months ago out of Ohio, but the story coming out of Oklahoma seems the most controversial yet. It actually delayed another man's execution.
A link to the story is below...
So do you favor the death penalty?
Do you think the death penalty will last in America considering the declining availability of traditional lethal injection drugs?
Oklahoma’s horrible ‘botched execution’ shows again why the death penalty should be abolished
It's pathetically self centered to want to kill in vengeance (not defense).
The treatment of the most pathetic illustrates the decency of society and justifies its existence.
You're misunderstanding me.
I'm not talking about vengeance at all.
I'm not saying that we should execute the most egregious offenders of our most fundamental laws because of "an eye for an eye", or anything like that.
I'm saying we should do it because a.) such people have forfeit their right to remain among us in civil society, and b.) because there is no guarantee that they can be reformed and become trusted members of society.
the 5th amendment.