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 Cid_Lives
Shhhhh
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I don't believe in the slowness of the system. I think that once they find guilt in cases of multiple rapes, murders, etc. then they should just take them to a pre dug grave, say grace or whatever, and shoot them in the head and bury them. All of this waste of resources for societal tumors is beyond my comprehension.
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FurrowedBrow
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 Re: The Death Penalty  [Re: Cid_Lives]
#479132 - 09/18/10 02:44 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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that's a good point too. Not to mention the kind of psychological issues that go along with being on death row but not having a date for it set at all.
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maryanne3087
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Anyone ever read the book The Stranger by Albert Camus? A good part of the book (which is short) explores the state of mind of someone waiting for their death date/on death row. Fairly disturbing if you ask me.
The fear of reflection when on death row to discourage people from actions that would merit the death penalty? Fear this more than death sort of deal?
In the book I recently read, Edison and the electric chair.. There's some reasoning as to why the electric chair was more humane than hanging and why death row was thought to be necessary.
-The electric chair vs hanging would apparently be more terrifying than hanging as you would be killed by a silent, unknown force, and go without struggle. Some would think of this to be worse than death.
-Death row, as stated above would allow criminals time to reflect their actions, feel guilty, feel like they should have another chance at life, but only to be killed without mercy. Could this be worse than death?
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Cid_Lives
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I would think yes, but do we really have the time and money to spare just so some monster can attempt to regain his purity of spirit? I think not.
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maryanne3087
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Re: The Death Penalty [Re: Cid_Lives]
#479148 - 09/18/10 03:17 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I believe the idea is/was to make it look so horrific that other people don't want to become murders and suffer the same punishment.
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Cid_Lives
Shhhhh
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Meh. People are going to do something horrendous regardless, I think.
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maryanne3087
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Re: The Death Penalty [Re: Cid_Lives]
#479179 - 09/18/10 04:06 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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You're probably right. The idea going into it was, to make this way of dying so hopeless and inevitable that no one would want to suffer it. Keeping it humane and horrendous was the goal.
Keeping the death away from the public eye seemed to be a good deterrent for those who wanted to be famous or go out with a bang but now we have more murder suicide cases or shooting spree suicide cases.
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 Tina
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Thebooedocksaint said:
I'm cool with the death penalty, but IMO there should be a requirement for even more proof to do it.
Because I never want to hear about a dude/dudette that was executed and then found innocent.
But people in jail for life with no parole usually do nothing but drain tax dollars.
Granted legalization of marijuana/cocaine/opiates would also empty those prisons out pretty good too. But then again D.A.R.E. ran a pretty good campaign of misinformation.
Also, I beleive if you have to kill someone it should be as quick and painless as possible.
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hippielauren said:
ha ha too funny. whats everyone got against texans? we all arent hicks ya know
I only hate texas because they take the heat off of kansas for being the crappiest state.
WOAH wohaaa. calm down.
Texas is great!
Everything is great here.
Except cops, of course.
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maryanne3087 said:
I don't see how isolating people behind bars who will never become productive or rejoin the civilized half of their society is more humane than killing them. Besides that it costs millions of dollars for life long prison stays.
my thoughts exactly.
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Tangerines
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Re: The Death Penalty [Re: Tina]
#479184 - 09/18/10 04:09 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I wish this shit was public these days.
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