Most of the time, I'm against it, but there's some extreme situations that really make me considering my stance of the topic. So I went with "indifferent" right now.
It's too costly keeping these inmates on deathrow for so long, however sometimes they ARE wrong and the convicted felon was innocent, and you can't undone death...
Besides the obvious reason of false judgement and the convicted person not actually being guilty of the crime there are so many different arguments.
Doesn't a person suffer much more having to go through other penalties such as a life-long stay in prison? Is a person not able to atone for his past actions and actually be sorry for what he has done? Are we even able to judge others for their actions without having lived and been in the same kind of circumstances?
We are human beings and therefore should in all cases treat others the same. You are asking for your basic right of life and simultaneously want to rob others of their same, most important basic right and that's just not how it works or should work.
Besides the obvious reason of false judgement and the convicted person not actually being guilty of the crime there are so many different arguments.
Doesn't a person suffer much more having to go through other penalties such as a life-long stay in prison? Is a person not able to atone for his past actions and actually be sorry for what he has done? Are we even able to judge others for their actions without having lived and been in the same kind of circumstances?
We are human beings and therefore should in all cases treat others the same. You are asking for your basic right of life and simultaneously want to rob others of their same, most important basic right and that's just not how it works or should work.
No and there's an entire ethic built around that subject so I won't even let this discussion get there.
I'm not talking about the most dramatic kinds of crimes - there are people judged with death penalty for drug trafficking, too. It doesn't have to be a mass murderer we're talking about.
To be honest, most criminals who would receive the death penalty for their crime would probably prefer death over rotting in a maximum security prison for the rest of their lives anyways
Besides the obvious reason of false judgement and the convicted person not actually being guilty of the crime there are so many different arguments.
Doesn't a person suffer much more having to go through other penalties such as a life-long stay in prison? Is a person not able to atone for his past actions and actually be sorry for what he has done? Are we even able to judge others for their actions without having lived and been in the same kind of circumstances?
We are human beings and therefore should in all cases treat others the same. You are asking for your basic right of life and simultaneously want to rob others of their same, most important basic right and that's just not how it works or should work.
Bruno sis
I don't care what anyone says.
Any person that feels like they're entitled to take another HUMAN BEING's life (I'm talking about extreme cases, torturing, school shootings, terrorists etc.) should be SENTENCED to death or suffer some type of torture. Life imprisonment is not enough. The quality of living in prisons is actually not even that bad. I'd only agree with life imprisonment is if you throw them in a prison of horrible quality somewhere in the pits of Venezuela or Guatemala. End of.
Only if the person was caught in the act or left several witnesses/victims alive and only if the act was rape or mass murder. We have no need for such people. The world is better off without them in it.
Depends on the situation. Am definitely for it as long as there is 100% proof that the person being punished committed the crime and the crime is extremely severe.
Like, if someone does a mass shooting @ a school, I don't think they deserve to live. Sorry.
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Although part of me is against it b/c I'd rather have the criminal suffer through a life time of prison and guilt instead of immediately being "freed" from all fault.
I'm against because I think it's inhumane to take someone's life. If the murderer/wrong-doer was not evolved enough to do inane acts, why should we stoop to that level and do the same to him? If we want to see someone (even if he is a terrorist) suffer or die, it means we have thoughts of doing wrong as well. While we thought we were caring, loving and forgiving, we finally turn into someone who get satisfaction from seeing someone die.