by Freaky_Chick on June 15th, 2007

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Do you think someone who commits murder should get life without parole, or get the death penalty?

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by philosopher-saint on April 20th, 2008
Dostoevski said that a society can best be judged by entering it's prisons and psych hospitals. I agree. A society which condones the death penalty is one of a lessor moral sophistication than one which can find more humane alternatives.
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by Sonja911 on June 23rd, 2007
Death Penalty...it's not necessary to have someone live on the tax dollars for years when they are guilty. Just kill them as soon as they're convicted...take them out behind the courthouse and shoot them. Bet if more of THAT happened...there would be less murdering going on.
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- I agree!
  
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  by BrokeDog on June 23rd, 2007
- if you really believe that, you're an idiot. People don't generally think about their possible punishment when they are in the situation that led to the crime in the first place so nothing will ever be deterred we will just create even more murderers...aka...you
  
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  by anonymous on August 19th, 2007
- Okay, anonymous, what do you suggest is a fitting punishment? It looks like you are against the death penalty, so what else could we do that might stop them from ever doing it again? The dinky little sentences half of the murderers are getting nowadays is sure not slowing down the crime rate.
  
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  by BrokeDog on August 19th, 2007
- I do not think that the death penalty or letting them out of jail is going to slow down the crime rate. Maybe the people responsible for the murders should get longer sentences, so that way they learn their lesson, and will stop murdering people. If that doesn't work, than I don't know what will. All I am sure of is that we live in a screwed up world where people actually kill other people.It's sick.
  
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  by overtheedge81 on August 30th, 2008
- The only problem with that approach is what do we do if someone is executed and later found to be innocent? If you think it doesn't happen, read this:
  
  "Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003 alone, 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row." More here: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-innocence
  
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  by Stu B needs no COAT for summer on May 13th, 2011
- Great answer! You can handcuff me anytime! Let's let everyone out of jail because they MIGHT have been wrongfully convicted.Oh wait! that won't work because we can't give them back the years they've lost! Nothings perfect.I love paintings of The French Revolution.I love the way those classy French ladies look standing around tied up while they await The Guillotine!
  
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  by bearwinston on June 20th, 2011
- You misunderstood my comment. Not everyone who might have been wrongully convicted, just those for whom there's evidence. It's simply a matter of justice.
  
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  by Stu B needs no COAT for summer on June 20th, 2011
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by Morg the Army wife on June 23rd, 2007
Well, seeing as most people live on death row survive for something like anothe 11 or 13 years (sorry don't know the exact) I think either both are fairly similar. Personally, if the murder is proved beyond a doubt, I think the death sentence should be carried out immediately. If there was reasonable doubt, but not enough to keep the person out of jail, perhaps the life sentence would be better so they could later be rpvoen innoncent. But of course, they are a drain on society's resources, so I don't much approve of keeping a bunch of murderers sitting around eating my tax money for 20 or 30 years or even longer.
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- Ditto!
  
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  by BrokeDog on June 23rd, 2007
- thanks :o)
  
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  by Morg the Army wife on June 25th, 2007
- If there is reasonable doubt then the person should not even get convicted. So the mere fact that a person was convicted means that the jury was convinced beyond all reasonable doubt. Also, in most jurisdictions the jury makes the sentencing recomendation. When they have some doubt they usually don;t recommend death.
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  On the other hand, the purpose of allowing appeals is to correct errors made in court. For example, the jury may be convinced beyond all reasonable doubt, but they may not have heard evidence because the judge excluded. If that evidence was improperly excluded, the convict should have a right to appeal.
  
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  by Anonymous on August 19th, 2007
- The best approach would be to have a separate appeals court that only deals with capital cases. This way the convict can have their right to appeal, and we can speed up the appeal process.
  
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by Mr. Black on May 12th, 2011
Death plain and simple. Murder is planned and if you want to plan death then death should meet you.
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- But what if someone is found guilty, executed, and later found to be innocent?
  
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  by Stu B needs no COAT for summer on May 12th, 2011
- Extinguishing life comes with heavy burdens.
  
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  by Mr. Black on May 12th, 2011
- Is that all you would have to say to the family of a wrongfully executed person? How would you feel if a member of your family was executed wrongfully?
  
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  by Stu B needs no COAT for summer on May 12th, 2011
- listen I do not have the time to explain the law of averages and how after the first 2000 or so I would put my life on the line that murder would become a crime of the past. Should we not use the hover dam because people died building it. Do we not protect ourselves from hypothermia because every thing we know about it came from experiments using Jewish holocaust prisoners. You are hung up on the one thing that may go wrong about 1 out of 100 000 times. Find some stats. the good of the many out way the good of the few. How do you feel about those that die in war far more innocent and far more often they die. What do we tell their families. "It's will be all ok we just want your oil to make McDonalds containers so i can feed my fat kids. It's all perspective. Mine is the world would soon be a better place if Death was in our face every day rather than hide from it in a coffin, through religion, obtaining private property. Death penalty yes, euthanasia yes . As a society we do not respect death only run from it.
  
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  by Mr. Black on May 13th, 2011
- OK, you want stats?
  
  "Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003 alone, 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row." More here: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-and-innocence
  
  Building the HOOVER (not Hover) Dam is hardly analogous - people took those jobs voluntarily. How many wrongful deaths is acceptable? And it's fine for you to decide how to relate to death for yourself, but don't presume to decide for others.
  
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  by Stu B needs no COAT for summer on May 13th, 2011
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by Roselynn...unregistered text offender... on April 17th, 2008
Jail for life.
We teach people that its wrong to kill by killing them.
Jail is a bit more sensible.
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- the reason I ask, is because I just read what that ian huntley guy has in his cell for rape and killing two little girls. and I feel sicken and enraged. some poeple have to work had for such entittlments in everyday life. and he and others like him get life with that??? WHAT THE F**K?
  
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  by Arkius on April 17th, 2008
- Thats true.
  What that guy did was..awful.
  But maybe pushing him to the edge of insanity by isolation is better than an easy and almost painless death.
  
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  by Roselynn...unregistered text offender... on April 17th, 2008
- maybe, but the latest books, dvds, games consoles? and get this if he doesn't get food he wants; he goes on a hunger strike. I thought prison was supossed to make them suffer for what they did.
  
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  by Arkius on April 17th, 2008
- Yeah. Thats really retarded.
  My cousin has cancer.
  And whenever he goes to jail.
  He tells them he has cancer.
  And they let him go.
  FIve days later.
  Hes back in.
  They never keep him because they dont want to pay for his treatment.
  Our prisons are seriously screwed up.
  
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  by Roselynn...unregistered text offender... on April 17th, 2008
- your telling me
  
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  by Arkius on April 17th, 2008
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by New Member on June 23rd, 2007
life imprisonment but i would only give them as long as a relative of the d00d he killed wants him to stay in prison.
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by DRLAURAHATER on June 23rd, 2007
I would say the death penalty, Why should we have to pay for someone to live for murdering someone else? Our taxes pay for all those people that are in prison for life.
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by Amorphous Blob on June 23rd, 2007
I'm against the death penalty for a few reasons...
1. The US is one of only a few nations to have it; the others are almost all unsavory dictatorships.
2. Many people have been cleared of crimes after years in prison, even on death row.
3. Somewhere in the Bible it says "because lawlessness is increased, peoples' love will grow cold" - I think that as a reaction to crime we react in an eye-for-eye fashion that's not good for ourselves, our society, or civilization.
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- the Bible supports the death penalty...
  
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  by BROADWAYTHECAT on September 19th, 2009
- I'd rather listen to Jesus than the Old Testament.
  
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  by Amorphous Blob on September 19th, 2009
- the death penalty is not lawlessness...the death penalty is not a reation it is a response.
  
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  by BROADWAYTHECAT on September 20th, 2009
- just so you know...i'm not a "fan" of the death penalty...our judicial system is broken and innocent people are executed while guilty people freely roam the streets...not to mention it makes more victims (the surviving family members, friends and loved ones of the executed person).
  
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  by BROADWAYTHECAT on September 20th, 2009
- misspelling....reation should be reaction
  
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  by BROADWAYTHECAT on September 20th, 2009
- By "lawlessness", I meant in the context of "Because lawless (like people murdering someone) is increased, people's love will grow cold (and they'll want revenge".
  
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  by Amorphous Blob on September 20th, 2009
- captial punishment is not about revenge and capital punishment is not the same as murder...capital punishment is about ridding the community of the worst of the lawless. if capital punishment is lawless, considered revenge and is the same as murder then any kind of punishment is revenge and any kind of punishment is lawless and only adds to the lawlessnes of socity...there would be no social constraints and no way to rid society of those who are the most lawless...how does that reduce lawlessness? i am truly asking you to help me understand...for example if children could be raised on love alone with no need for limits, i'd say maybe that could be applied to society in its entirety...but love without behavior limits creates lawless children...
  
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  by BROADWAYTHECAT on September 20th, 2009
- I agree, CP is not lawlessness or murder. It does rid society of murderers and such, at the cost of an occasional innocent man killed and a coarsening, life-devaluing effect on society and individuals.
  
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  by Amorphous Blob on September 20th, 2009
- somehow, i misunderstood what you were getting at in the beginning... :)
  
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by Kitten on May 12th, 2011
It would depend on the circumstances...a heinous crime involving toture,mutilation,sexual deviancy ,children...should be put to death.The less heinous... life w/out parole.
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by RosieGHM Jetpacker on May 12th, 2011
Maximum...death
Minimum...life in prison without possibility of parole

Depends upon how horrendous the circumstances of the murder is. If torture is involved or a child or it was a pregnant woman or an old person or a person who was mentally or physically challenged then death, no mercy. Anything else that was premeditated is life in prison no parole ever. If death occurs accidentally then it isn't murder it's manslaughter. :)
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by --Irahyn.says.Tks.4.Pts. --- on April 19th, 2008
Arkius, I tried to rate your question up, but apparently someone downrated you 'cause it wouldn't change. I'm sorry....maybe someone else will point you up and get rid of your zero score.
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- Ah, it looks like its working now - no more zero score!
  
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- cheers :-)
  
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by MrWitch on June 23rd, 2007
I'd have to go for life with no parole. The reasons are quite straightforward -

1/. Not all lawyers are equal. Some are incompetent, and a persons life shouldn't depend on someone else's ability (or lack of it) in this sort of case.
2/. Regardless of ability, there's always the potential for human error from everyone involved in a case - witnesses, scientific testing, police testimony, expert witnesses*, the list goes on.
3/. 'Life with no parole' keeps the public safe (although they have to pay for it) yet allows for the correction of mistakes, new information or new processes.

* Professor Roy Meadow testified in dozens of cases that a mother had killed her child, 'Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy' cases. His evidence has since been extensively discredited and 28 cases in which his evidence directly contributed to a conviction have gone or are going before the Court of Appeal. To my knowledge, at least 2 cases have so far been quashed and the person released. What could anyone do if all these women are not guilty but had been executed?
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by noKE llz on June 15th, 2007
i think this really depends on the severity of the crime, personally i think that they shouldnt get off os easily and not have to suffer the criminal system. but if the person is a huge danger to even the people working at he prison, he should probably be put to death. but many people dont know that it actually costs more to kill a prisoner than to keep him in highly secluded cell.
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by Rince on June 15th, 2007
In certain cases, child murder etc, where guilt is proven 100%, then I would say death penalty. Unfortunatly this is not an option in England, I think it should be.
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by Iceander on September 17th, 2011
Depends on who & why the person was murdered. In some cases they should be rewarded, in others they should be killed immediately.

Can't have a blanket rule simply because of infinite possibility's.
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by madale on September 25th, 2008
turn EVERY prison into manual labor workforces.....
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by Snow_Haven on August 12th, 2008
Jail and that should be where they stay for the rest of there lives without any parole, to live with the guilt of what they have done!

Unless its soemone who has done some extreme murders like Hitlers case or something to that extent then they should be put to death!
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by miss blue on April 20th, 2008
I think the punishment should fit the crime, but I don't hold with the death penalty because it makes the justice system as bad as the murderers.
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by franziska von awesome -ex neko- on August 19th, 2007
Life without parole. Life in prison sucks. Yes, it's free food and all that, but at the same time it's an extremely violent place.
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by BrokeDog on June 23rd, 2007
I think the better penalty would be death. BUT, I do agree with Mr.Witch, in that most convicted murderers had insufficient representation. I know it's only about 7 or 8% that are later found innocent, but, if there is even ONE who was later found innocent, then the penalty should be life w/o parole.
Of course, Morgenstern is correct also about even death row prisoners getting 3 hots and a cot, outside time, sometimes they get t.v. time, and they do generally cost us taxpayers around $50,000 or so, a year.
So, due to mistakes having already been made, (innocent people being put to death), I will have to change my opinion to life w/o parole.
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by Firebrand on June 15th, 2007
Certain cases and after an appeal has been turned down Death Penalty.Definately for Premeditated Murder and Child Killers

I find the fact that the victims family spend their lives paying taxes to keep the killer in prison quite offensive.
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by DRLAURAHATER on June 15th, 2007
I think they should get the death penalty, Why should we keep them alive and pay for them to stay in prison I also think & feel that people who get and do Abortions should also get the death penalty, after all they committed murder of an inocent baby.
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- Ok, this is where I get waaayyyy confused. Your argument, as I understand it, is as follows: Human life is inherently valuable; so valuable, that someone who takes another's life (at any stage of development) should receive the worst punishment for a crime. Why would you then advocate ending the perpetrator's life? You justify it by saying the cost of imprisonment is an imposition on "us". So now it seems you're saying that there is a monetary limit on the value of a human life that, once exceeded, justifies ending that life. But if, in fact, your original premise is true then isn't society perpetuating the same crime by ending the life of a human being, via the death penalty? It seems to me that either 1) the value of a human life is absolute, and should be consistently enforced; or 2) life is valued more situationaly, bringing to mind ideas like "quality of life" and "contributions to society". I struggle with attempts to impose "black & white" when the world is filled with "gray".
  
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  by theredbaron on June 15th, 2007
- once more i wish i could rate comments!
  
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  by pigeonpower on June 15th, 2007
- Your good thoughts suffice -- at least it lets me know I expressed myself somewhat clearly. :)
  
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  by theredbaron on June 15th, 2007
- I am not pro or anti abortion, but the one thing that annoys me is that people think that those who are anti abortion should be anti death penalty. There is a big difference between a fetus who has done no harm and a murderer. With that said, abortion is a much more complicated issue than that, but just because someone is pro-life with fetuses doesn't mean they need to be pro-life for adults who make a mental choice to kill an innocent. Big difference.
  
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by Carpediem COAT ab imo pectore on September 1st, 2008
It depends on the crime, if the killer has a mental disorder or if it was an accidental killing.

If the killer has a mental disorder that person is not responsible of his acts and requires psychiatric attention and an accidental crime can not be judged as a well calculated and cruel crime.

There is not a general concept for the death penalty.
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by Teri on September 28th, 2008
life...it doesn't make sense to do to another what then you should be punished for...
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by Occams Electric Razor on September 28th, 2008
they should be given a fair trial, 2 appeals to prove innocence and then executed. The idea of housing these people for life, costing us millions is silly. it costs more to care for the average prisoner than it does the average student.
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by the VP wears a Wicked COAT on August 30th, 2008
While I do not have a problem with the death penalty, I personally feel it is more torturous to keep them alive so that they remember what they've done. If we could do so without further detriment on our society, i.e.: tax payers; that would be ideal. How to accomplish this though, I do not know...
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by franziska von awesome -ex neko- on August 19th, 2007
Life without parole. Life in prison sucks. Yes, it's free food and all that, but at the same time it's an extremely violent place.
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by Sodapop on May 12th, 2011
Life in prison, without parole.. No protection from the general population. Charges placed if anyone is caught dishing out any bit of prison justice, of course. No sense wasting taxpayer funds being personal security for prisoners. It's not meant to be a cushion. It's a bad place.

But I don't incline myself towards the belief that the state or federal government has a right to put me to death, under any circumstances. If I'm protesting and getting violent, shoot me with a rubber ball. But killing me? No.

Not in this country.
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by b on May 12th, 2011
I think the death sentence is the general consensus, but considering that the judge and jury can make mistakes, it seems like it would be too risky to accidentally send an innocent man to the electric chair. Therefore I think that a life sentence with no parol would be the best punishment. This would give the chance for cases to be reopened if more evidence is found.
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by Donald_W8989 on September 17th, 2011
Depends on the motive and the mental state of the person. Every murder should be judged differently based on those facts.
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by lyonese01 on September 17th, 2011
Life without parole .
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by DeVaughn93 on May 12th, 2011
Life sentence of jail
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by Christine on May 12th, 2011
The punishment for murder is countless ages in purgatory for every life taken including every one of their descendants who would have been born through to the end of time. If the murderer is never sorry, then he goes to Hell for eternity.

As long as a murderer continues to live, he increases his punishment in the next life, and increases the chance that he'll end up in Hell. Any civilized society should put the convicted murderer to death just as soon as the certainty of his guilt is established. Whether he killed a person swiftly and painlessly, or raped and tortured her, a civilized society can do no more than send him on to his punishment in the afterlife.
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by bryandreece on December 17th, 2010
a person responsible for the deliberate murder of another innocent person (especially a child) deserves to lose right to live. Society deserves to be rid of those who murder. I am sick of hearing about murderers getting out, it doesnt even make sense to me. The release of a murderer is a crime against the love ones of the murdered and also a crime against humanity, it is an undefineable injustice. life without parole until we make the DP cheaper.
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by Joseph Smith was a fraud and Eisegete on May 12th, 2011
Death, not a $75,000 ceremony, not a 25 year prolonged attempt at pardons.

Just death. Sometime an innocent person will be put to death, that is unfortunate. Yet, if some knew they would actually die for killing someone else, rather than get off for some stupid stipulation, perhaps less people would commit murder.
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by Prunesquallor on May 12th, 2011
The only countries ahead of America in the execution stakes are the People's Republic of China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. You are in great company.

There are only 58 countries remaining that still kill their citizens.
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- That is kind of sad that China and Saudi Arabia value the innocent lives of their citizens more than most Europeans. Most European governments place greater value on living murderers than dead innocents.
  
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- It's not just Europeans; it's the world.
  
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by Mr Ricci Bilotta (*¯︶¯*) on September 17th, 2011
DEATH!!
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by Texaspete on September 17th, 2011
Fry'um, gas'um, juice'um, hang'um, shoot'um, anything but keep them in prison for 30/40 years, at MY expense!
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by luc on June 15th, 2007
Life without parole- but as we know they DO get out with good behavior in jail. This bothers me ALOT..you kill someone you deserve life in jail and get what you deserve while in there for LIFE>...my opinion
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by Will on August 19th, 2007
Death
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by RSingh_S6658 on December 11th, 2010
It is obvious, death penalty should be established. People speak about how it is not moral or the religious thing to do. But look at it as if your family was brutally murdered. Why allow a murderer to live and be happy with bunch of other murderers in a prison. Having food, shelter, clothes, a place to sleep and being able to meet family members and friends. A cold hearted criminal behaving like an animal should NOT be treated as a human. If a dog/animal severely injures a person or even kills someone the state usually is willing to kill it, deeming it not fit for society. Why aren't people who behave like animals get punished like one? Even if the state or society thinks death penalty is to extreme things should be put in place to make a murderer suffer in jail, feel pain just like the person that was killed and the life time of anguish felt by the deceased loved ones. The real reason people kill is because the consequences don't out weigh the cause.
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by Mastodon on August 12th, 2008
Death, keeping them in prison just uses up taxpayer's money.
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by anonymous on June 15th, 2007
I say parole them and THEN kill them....then they can see how it feels to take someones freedom and life at the same time....
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by mekare on June 15th, 2007
life without parole
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by Santana_K on September 17th, 2011
The way I see it, a life for a life, kill the son of a b*tch! Short and simple.
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by judgebill on June 15th, 2007
Let's take a practical approach. In California we have over 600 people on death row. We execute only a few every year. If we were to execute them at the rate of one a week, we would never catch up.
The cost of a) running each death-penalty case through the entire appeal system and b) maintaining a prisoner on death row is significantly greater than the cost of simply sentencing the prisoner to life without possibility of parole. And no, they don't get parole. So putting the person in the general prison population is a fraction of the cost of imposing the death sentence. From an economic standpoint, it is impossible to justify the death sentence...even in Texas. All this without getting into the moral or philosophical issues. Incidentally, just for the record, I'm against the death penalty on moral and philosophical grounds too.
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by pigeonpower on June 15th, 2007
No. I can't see the death penalty as anything but government-approved murder and I can't justify that no matter what the crime.
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by Raoul Duke on August 30th, 2008
i would rather they had to rot in prison for the rest of thier lives instead of getting an injection and taking the easy way out.
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