2) Spending 30+ years in jail is worse than dying for your crimes.
No it's not jail isn't some dungeon anymore, these days prisoners have things like beds, toilets, television, computer access, exercise privileges, they are even allowed to make phone calls and write letters.
I don't think we should have power to take somebody's life away.
1. Because only god should have that ability.
2. An eye for an eye does not make matter's better (You are also a killer and should be put down)
3. People change and putting somebody up for death is not given them the right's to accept what they did is wrong and try to change their life over.
4. What if the person was wrongly accused and then KILLED for something they did not do. ?????
The Death penalty is for humans who hunger revenge which is not a good trait.
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.
Mess @ you condoning torture. You're one of the reasons why society is as violent as it is.
Not you advocating court ordered murders and torture. What kind of childish revenge mentality?
Yes, only on cases of murder and with no element of doubt
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Originally posted by Haus
Against for two reasons:.
2) Spending 30+ years in jail is worse than dying for your crimes.
Not really. You get tv, internet access, you do jobs to earn money to buy luxuries like cigarettes. It's a joke. It's even worse if you're a high profile inmate cause you get further special treatment
Watch the Maguindanao massacre. Death is too easy for these kinds of criminals. I agree with some that prison is mentally draining. Lock them up in Château d'If kind of prison. May their conscience disturbed them for the rest of their life.
No it's not jail isn't some dungeon anymore, these days prisoners have things like beds, toilets, television, computer access, exercise privileges, they are even allowed to make phone calls and write letters.
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Talking about "make them suffer in prison" if anything they are living better than if they weren't.
I'm not too sure if death penalty is a better or worse deterrent than life imprisonment.
Look at Anders Brevik, his jail conditions are actually really good. And he can write about his manifesto stuff, which totally ruins the rehabilitative aim of Norwegian jail system.
Death is too easy for these kinds of criminals. I agree with some that prison is mentally draining. Lock them up in Château d'If kind of prison. May their conscience disturbed them for the rest of their life.
Death is too easy?
What do you think about the system of boxes used at the former Mongolian prison at Urga? They used to lock prisoners in boxes for years, those lucky enough to be released found themselves unable to walk as their limbs had atrophied. Most were in for life and would never be let out, the boxes were not kept clean and many starved or froze in winter. There is a famous picture:
Urga's prison was rated as the worst in the world and each room of the complex was piled high with wooden crates less than four feet in length. These coffins served as cells - unable to sit up or lie at full length, the hapless and starving prisoners were also weighed down with lead chains and manacles.
Here are some other photographs and illustrations, the stacked box-cells allowed the building to be quite small.
Y'all are crazy if you think prison nowadays is this torturous place where these people are thrown away all alone with nothing to do but reflect on their crimes. Not when they're in there with iPhones posting pictures and messages to people on Facebook (look it up), playing Xbox, watching tv, and eating Popeye's all because they managed to go a whole week without stabbing a guard.
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.
Exactly. Prison should be about rehabilitation, or in the case of irreparably heinous crimes, making sure they can't be committed again. Surprised to see so many people focusing on REVENGE. Why don't we just bring back the public hangings and burning at the stake since y'all seem to get your life to people being punished by force (regardless of whether they're innocent or not)