Being that the death penalty is given to those who commit premeditated murder, how is is that the death penalty is legal when it is the most premeditated cold blooded murder of all?
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sungazer
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I FEEL THE SAME WAY YOU DO. I THINK FOR PUNISHMENT THE CRIMINAL SHOULD BE LOCKED IN A CELL FOR THE REST OF THIER LIFE WITH MINIMAL HUMAN CONTACT AND NO CHANCE FOR PAROLE. PRETY MUCH GIVE THE PERSON THEIR BASIC NEEDS TO SURVIVE BUT NO MORE THEN THAT EVER.
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In the developed world the death penalty is only used in Singapore, Japan and the United States, so the death penalty is not given to those who commit murder, except in the countries I mentioned and in many Third World countries.
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Because it is not murder. Murder is a legal conclusion. Not every killing is a murder. Only those killings that fit within a murder statute are murder. The death penalty does not fit within a murder statute, therefore it is not murder.
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Because murder harms society while getting rid of someone who commits said crime is doing society a favor. There's a big difference between hacking up a family with a hatchet and making sure that said person never gets the chance to do it again.
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I agree - and I am not one who believes in the Death penality. For exactly this reason.
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explain to me how a painless injection is more cold blooded than chopping someone up and putting them in a freezer, or beheading someone and throwing the body in the woods... What a stupid statement
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I don't get it either. It is also a violation of the human rights. It's just the stupidest thing ever. This reminded me of a graphic joke from an argentinan humorist... It's a guy pointing at a gallows saying: "This is the last stop for a person who doesn't understand that killing someone else is a crime punished by the law, that, over all, protects the right that every human being has to live, and which depends only in the will of God."
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I don't support death penalty....and thanks it has been declared unconstitutional in my country.......
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If you are open minded read or rent "Clockwork Orange". After you have finished, if your mind has not changed, invite a convicted murder over to your house to be rehabilitated.
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Behold the awesome truth-stretching wonders and logic defying powers of the internet soapbox! If you have a problem with the death penalty, lobby against it, but, by all means, try to maintain a grasp on reality. A painless lethal injection is by no means cruel (or proportional) in the face of a sadistic rape, torture, murder, and dismemberment of a pregnant woman or an infant. "The US spends an estimated $60 billion each year on corrections. It costs an average of $88 dollars a day per prisoner." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States) $88 per day, for each of our 2.3 MILLION(+) prisoners, and we, the taxpayers, are footing the bill, paying out of pocket for these people, many of whom wouldn't think twice about gutting us like stuck pigs, so that they can have a bed to sleep in, 3 square meals, cable TV, educational benefits, religious and psychological counseling, trade skill training, and, in many cases, an actual job. That's about $600 per month MORE than the average American Soldier earns to put their lives on the line.
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I would like to add one thing if I may to this wonderfully heated debate. (and although I have already responded once, I do hope that I did not break any AB Rules) I am Canadian where the Death Penalty no longer exhists (and only in my opionion - Thank goodness - And you do not have to agree with me). BUT - what happens to that person who is wrongfully accused? There have been cases (at least here in Canada) that people have been jailed for Years and years... for crimes that they have been found guilty of. But were actually inocent and released after 10 - 25 years, with Pardons What if this person was put to death? Would that be murder? With repect to all of you who believe in the death penalty, I truely believe killing is killing. I know I could never live with myself if I was the one pulling that switch.
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