Death Penalty?

What are alterative to the death penalty?
Answers:
Life imprisonment. We need to allow everyone - even the most vicious of criminals - the opportunity for a change of heart and redemption. To execute might be an easy solution, but who gives any of us the right to take a life?

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Life in Prison?

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life?

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Life in Prison, or some other countries chop off one of the limbs.

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Life in prison. I guess thats about it.

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caneing and stoning

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Life in prison. It costs way more to put someone to death (for them to live on death row and to eventually be put to death)than to keep them in prison there whole life. Plus it has been proven that the death penalty does not deter crime.

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If you're referring to put an end to life then there is none.. but death penalty is wayyyyyy too easy a way out for a criminal... But in any other way to compensate death is also wayyyyy too inhumane...

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I'm guessing life in prison without paroll... that is if given a choice, which i highly doubt

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nothing
God said if if blood by man is shed by man his blood shall be shed
meaning if you murder u get killed simple as that
making them wait 50 years in prison would be bad but not as bad as 50 extra years in hell (im not saying all murderers will go to hell. im just saying that it is a sin and will be punished for it, but possible for him to ask for forgiveness)

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Prevention.

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If it were a possibility, I think the criminal should spend a few hours his/her victim's family and friends, and prior to the meeting, the family and friends should spend an hour or two with a bottle of whiskey. Then we'll see what happens!

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Rehabilitation, incarceration, mental institutions...

NONE of which, in my personal opinion, are suitable for SOME types of offenders. As far as I'm concerned, people who, for example, rape and/or beat children (and I'm not talking about a spanking or disciplining, I'm talking about broken bones etc), kill innocent people through REPEATED drunk driving etc, do NOT have the right to abuse the system put in place by my tax dollars to sit around and eventually be unleashed on society at large to do the same thing again. SOME PEOPLE DO NOT GET BETTER - and as far as I'm concerned, repeat offenders of heinous, violent, premeditated crimes do not deserve to live.

Having said that, I think the real problem with the death penalty is its application. First of all, I don't see the point of letting someone sit on death row for 25 years. I mean, come on - by that time, who KNOWS whether or not that person is still the same or not, which is to say nothing of the waste of time, resources etc spent on keeping someone incarcerated for that period of time.

What is much more aggravating to me, however, is the clear bias present in the application of the death penalty. Not only are the majority of people on death row BLACK - a disturbingly high percentage of them are proven NOT GUILTY after they've already been executed!! THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS and NOT an exercise of justice.

I think the death penalty is only warranted, justified and can only hope to be the disincentive for heinous crimes it's intended to be if:

(a) a person if found, beyond ANY doubt, any circumstantial evidence etc, to be guilty of the charge(s) brought against that person

(b) has been proven to be a repeat offender, having committed the same or similar crime(s) more than once (for example serial rapists etc), therefore demonstrating the futility of any attempts at rehabilitation

(c) is a manifest, evident threat to society - regardless of age, gender, race etc


I would like to see that the people who get the death penalty are not some misguided african american young men who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I would like to see that the people who get the death penalty are people who abuse, rape and kill innocent people - not out of self-defense but out of pure evil or for the hell of it. And those people should not be sitting around watching tv and getting 3 squares a day for the next couple of decades - those people need to be done away with once and for all!