(June 18, 2011 at 8:50 am)bozo Wrote: Nap, you still avoid answering my main question! Do you still favour c.p. even though innocent people will be put to death?
Didn't realise that was a question, I thought you were using it as your main point for not wanting the death penalty.
I would like to re-iterate that I only think the DP should be used for the most horrendous criminals, and ones who are certainly convicted with the evidence to back it up. I know what you'll say next... "well how can we tell if this person or that person is definitely the criminal and not innocent?". Well frankly I don't know, it's not really my concern. That would be something for whoever reintroduces the DP to think about, and for whoever is convicting these criminals and people in the first place.
To answer your question in it's simplest form, I think we can introduce the penalty and that innocents don't have to die at all. You seem to think that the death penalty will definitely lead to innocent deaths? I disagree.
I am most certainly not in favor of the death penalty if it is going to be half arsed. Putting people to death is very serious, and I don't take it lightly. If the death penalty was introduced and every precaution was taken (I don't know what these would be, I'm not a politician nor do I make the rules) so that innocents weren't killed then I'm in favor.
