Death penalty: whats your opinion ?

[Jeff_rys]

berry de mey

isn't that the ETA, Catalans who want their piece of the country and seperate from Spain?

The same shit happens in Ireland. The IRA acts like terrorists because they want independency. On the other hand Australie had the change to be independant and they voted to stay in the Common Wealth.

Isn't it a strange world?

 

[HelenSL]

I think I'm against it except in true-self-defense. More because people can change, I believe, rather than because we might have the wrong person - although that is worth taking seriously...well, also because we don't have the right to take a life imo...we don't have the right to destroy what we didn't create imo...

But some killing is much less justified than other...i can see that...

Don't kill people just because you don't like their accent...

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?"

If he replied, "No," they said, "All right, say `Shibboleth.'" If he said, " Sibboleth ," because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

uh-huh.

Killing someone who doesn't agree with you or tells you the truth is also particularly unjustified imo

love
Helen

 

[manny78]

Re: berry de mey

isn't that the ETA, Catalans who want their piece of the country and seperate from Spain?


Isn't it a strange world?

The batsards from ETA deserve death penalty, I have no doubt on this. Just like it used to be before.

 

[reconnect]

no thanks

 

[spongebob]

The idea with the jury system is to be judged by your peers, but the people they drag in for jury duty are rarely your peers. Many times they are complete idiots, driven by emotions rather than logic.

well that sounds like the peers of a murderer to me.
only half kidding!

 

[spongebob]

Also, even though some of these criminals should 'deserve' to die, shouldn't our society strive to be better by not adopting such ancient eye-for-an-eye ruling mechanisms? The legal system shouldn't be based on emotions, or on notions of 'justice' and 'retribution' for the victims' families, but on applying established laws in an logical and orderly fashion.

you havn't said WHY our society should strive to be better, but i will guess that your answer will be based on emotions.

 

[BO-CEPHUS]

For people who are against the death penalty.

What is going to be your opinion if somehow Bin Laden is handed over to the United States? I assume he would be put on trial.

So, I assume that you will still believe that he should be put in jail and rehabilitated?

 

[daised]

i don't believe in the death penalty but since there is one, i think it at least needs to be modified. Rape deserves the death penalty

 

[huntmaster]

I am for the death penalty. I believe in it for justice and not deterance.

 

[manny78]

For people who are against the death penalty.

What is going to be your opinion if somehow Bin Laden is handed over to the United States? I assume he would be put on trial.

So, I assume that you will still believe that he should be put in jail and rehabilitated?

I think the US shouldn't wate money on a trial, he should just be executed in public.