I don't support the death penalty. Too many innocent people
being released years and years later now.
Yes, the only reservation I would have is in knowing the person actually committed the crime. Many people were sent to prisons in the past who with the help of attorneys and new DNA evidence found the prisoners were actually innocent.
If they going to pass death sentences upon people, they better be darned sure the person committed the act, real sure.
Actually in a lot of those cases it is not so much that they were INNOCENT... necessarily.
Before DNA testing, biological sample were often not stored properly and old cases samples are often no longer viable for DNA testing. In some states this technicality has resulted in death sentences being commuted, after laws requiring DNA testing in capital cases were passed.
when you have a rabid dog that represents a threat to society do you just keep it locked up until it does of natural causes, maybe in a kennel where it can affect other locked up animals or attack the occasional keeper?the moral question remains.
what justifies killing a human being?
Yup, I'm all for making the standard of evidence for the death penalty pretty high... if it were up to me, I'd also restrict it to only the most heinous and egregious forms of murder: murder with aggravating circumstances (ie torture or rape), murder committed while engaged in another felony (ie burglary)... murders of helpless victims who gave no offense to the perp... that sort of thing.
Police departments and cities can protect themselves from having to award past defendants restitution, and falsely accused, by incarcerating people for life, that way, if there's ever a doubt of guilt, the defendant would still be alive and released if innocent. At least the defendant could be set free.
As you can tell, I'm sort of on the fence concerning the death penalty, there have been serious mistakes and miscarriages of justice in the past.
Utah lawmaker: Bring back firing squad executions
Well, it might be quicker than lethal injection, but, kind of cruel.
The barbarism of the convicted is not and should not be relevant to the government's choice of execution method. In fact it is important that as a culture if we choose to kill people that it is done as justice and not revenge.
Revenge is the only justification for capital punishment.
Sick thing is that there would be nut jobs who would enjoy that.
Sunday afternoon Public beheadings guaranteed for your viewing pleasure! Refreshments available, Bring the family along!
hogwash. Some people view capital punishment as a fitting punishment for a heinous crime. Some people view it as a means of ensuring murderers don't have the opportunity to commit the act again. Vengeance should never be the reason a justice system employs the punishment.Revenge is the only justification for capital punishment.
Firing squads are a waste. It only takes one bullet in the brain pan to kill someone. Why waste all them bullets that a whole squad has? Faster than leathal injection and no chance of the wrong amount or mixture of poison being used and prolonging the death. If you don't think one bullet is enough then just do a double tap to the head. No one will live through that.
The point of the squad is that only one rifle has a bullet in it, the other have a blank in it. No one knows which gun has a live round. That way none of the guards doing the execution don't have to have the feeling regret of taking a person's life.
What if that one guy is a bad shot?
But actually I thought it was the opposite: one gun has a blank.
The point of the squad is that only one rifle has a bullet in it, the other have a blank in it. No one knows which gun has a live round. That way none of the guards doing the execution don't have to have the feeling regret of taking a person's life.
Firing squads are a waste. It only takes one bullet in the brain pan to kill someone. Why waste all them bullets that a whole squad has? Faster than leathal injection and no chance of the wrong amount or mixture of poison being used and prolonging the death. If you don't think one bullet is enough then just do a double tap to the head. No one will live through that.
We have physicians that inject poison into a persons body by the push of a button. Those people know that they are the ones that kill the person. If they can handle it then others can also. Blanks and the extra personnel are still a waste of money and still not needed imo.
And police departments charged with altering evidence, coercing witnesses, and cities paying out huge restitution amounts.
I'm not sure, but I believe evidence is stored now in a climate controlled area. I have heard of instances where blood or semen DNA can be extracted from clothing stored in brown bags for as many as twenty years, but I don't know if that's fact or fiction.