Do you think someone who commits murder should get life without parole, or get the death penalty?
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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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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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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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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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life without parole
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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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Death
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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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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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Jail for life. We teach people that its wrong to kill by killing them. Jail is a bit more sensible. LOL ~+~
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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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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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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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Death, keeping them in prison just uses up taxpayer's money.
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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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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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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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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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turn EVERY prison into manual labor workforces.....
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life...it doesn't make sense to do to another what then you should be punished for...
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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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