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The DEATH Penalty

Poll: Your loved one was murdered in cold-blood.
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They should be imprisoned for life.
26.67%
 8 26.67%
They should be executed by the State.
13.33%
 4 13.33%
I should have the right to kill them myself.
23.33%
 7 23.33%
Executing murderers is morally wrong.
26.67%
 8 26.67%
Executing murderers is morally right.
10.00%
 3 10.00%
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The DEATH Penalty
Chad32 Offline
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#71
RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:35 pm
(January 19, 2014 at 5:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:I would hope, but I don't think something should be abandoned because a few accidents slip through the cracks.

When talking about life and death I could not possibly disagree with you more strongly.

Well I don't really know what to say. Killing an innocent is a horrible thing, but leaving someone alive can end up with more death. In a way it might not really matter. If someone did something bad enough, and is locked away where other inmates can get to them, some inmates may take it upon themselves to kill the person anyway.
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#72
RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:39 pm (This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 5:43 pm by Cinjin.)
(January 19, 2014 at 5:35 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Well I don't really know what to say. Killing an innocent is a horrible thing, but leaving someone alive can end up with more death. In a way it might not really matter. If someone did something bad enough, and is locked away where other inmates can get to them, some inmates may take it upon themselves to kill the person anyway.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/...bined?lite

Quote: In 2011, suicides made up 5.5 percent of deaths in state and federal prisons, which was more than drug and alcohol intoxication, homicide and accidents combined.

Castro, who was found hanging in his cell late Tuesday,
Castro was only a month into a life-plus-1,000-years sentence.
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#73
RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:42 pm
Quote: some inmates may take it upon themselves to kill the person anyway.

I don't know why? Unless it is some gang thing from outside. According to you they are all just as bad as everyone else. You don't leave room for shades of gray.
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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:43 pm (This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 5:44 pm by Chad32.)
Well if they want to kill themselves, it's all the same to me. As long as bad conditions (and in some places it's unfortunately the case) are what cause the suicides.

I'm not sure where you get that I don't leave room for shades of gray.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:47 pm
(January 19, 2014 at 5:43 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Well if they want to kill themselves, it's all the same to me. As long as bad conditions (and in some places it's unfortunately the case) are what cause the suicides.


I'm all for them killing themselves, and I'm also extremely pleased that men like Jeffrey Dahmer get the justice that they should've gotten from our judicial courts. Prisoners killing violent murderers is a win win.
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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:49 pm (This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 5:50 pm by Chad32.)
Yeah, even criminals can have standards. Somebody committed a crime of passion and killed someone, as an example, being repulsed by a guy that skinned women (hopefully not alive but I'm unsure) and used the skins for clothes and furniture upholstery.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 5:57 pm
(January 19, 2014 at 5:29 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Compensation is subject to the person being compensated. There is no amount of money that I would trade away my freedom for. I stopped reading after the rest, since your argument is fallacious and your point heavily biased.

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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 6:34 pm (This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 8:03 pm by Cinjin.)
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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 7:35 pm
(January 19, 2014 at 6:34 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Exactly. [Image: Cherna-facepalm.gif]

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RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 20, 2014 at 1:23 am
While I neither support nor oppose as a rule, they'll probably be joining my loved one shortly. Sleepy
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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