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RE: Death Penalty
August 30, 2015 at 5:10 pm (This post was last modified: August 30, 2015 at 5:11 pm by AFTT47.)
(August 30, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Chad32 Wrote:
(August 30, 2015 at 2:13 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I think the biggest problem with the death penalty is that too many mistakes are made in the criminal justice system.  If a mistake is discovered and the person is in prison, the person can be set free.  If they were executed, then even partial restitution is impossible.

Basically, with the death penalty, innocent people will be killed by the state, because there will always be mistakes made.  How do you feel about supporting a policy which guarantees that the state will kill innocent people?

In the U.S., it is also unfairly and inconsistently imposed, and that is another reason to be against it here, at least as presently practiced.

We do have a big imprisonment problem, and part of that is the for-profit prison systems and the war on drugs. however, only about 4% of executions are mistakes, and that number is likely to go down over time. 4% is still a lot of people, but it would be even lower is they only killed people in the most extreme cases.

Chad, ONE innocent murdered (oh sorry, executed) by the state is one too many. We're talking about an an innocent person being told they are going to die, when they are going to die, strapped down and then killed in cold blood. What if that was YOU. It could happen. When we could have imprisoned them for life and made sure they never hurt anyone again. C'mon man, it's indefensible! It's barbaric!
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Death Penalty - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 30, 2015 at 2:30 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Foxaèr - August 30, 2015 at 2:32 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Wyrd of Gawd - August 30, 2015 at 2:43 am
RE: Death Penalty - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 30, 2015 at 5:03 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Lucanus - August 30, 2015 at 5:13 am
RE: Death Penalty - by jesus_wept - August 30, 2015 at 5:19 am
RE: Death Penalty - by bennyboy - August 30, 2015 at 9:04 am
RE: Death Penalty - by bennyboy - August 30, 2015 at 2:44 am
RE: Death Penalty - by ignoramus - August 30, 2015 at 6:43 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Aoi Magi - August 30, 2015 at 9:18 am
RE: Death Penalty - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 10:07 am
RE: Death Penalty - by downbeatplumb - August 30, 2015 at 2:22 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Alex K - August 30, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: Death Penalty - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 30, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 10:38 am
RE: Death Penalty - by AFTT47 - August 30, 2015 at 10:47 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 10:53 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Minimalist - August 30, 2015 at 12:05 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Pyrrho - August 30, 2015 at 2:13 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by AFTT47 - August 30, 2015 at 5:10 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Longhorn - August 30, 2015 at 2:15 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Pyrrho - August 30, 2015 at 2:25 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by downbeatplumb - August 30, 2015 at 2:15 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Pyrrho - August 30, 2015 at 3:05 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2015 at 2:20 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2015 at 2:28 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 30, 2015 at 2:34 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 2:35 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 30, 2015 at 3:58 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 4:32 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 30, 2015 at 5:24 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 30, 2015 at 10:12 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2015 at 5:30 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 30, 2015 at 8:10 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 8:18 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Catholic_Lady - August 30, 2015 at 8:22 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 30, 2015 at 8:26 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by AFTT47 - August 30, 2015 at 10:17 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 30, 2015 at 10:21 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 30, 2015 at 10:38 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Aroura - August 30, 2015 at 3:04 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Catholic_Lady - August 30, 2015 at 4:20 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by bennyboy - August 30, 2015 at 6:00 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 30, 2015 at 10:16 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by bennyboy - August 30, 2015 at 11:26 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 31, 2015 at 1:25 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 31, 2015 at 1:31 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by bennyboy - August 30, 2015 at 7:01 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by bennyboy - August 30, 2015 at 10:04 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 30, 2015 at 10:18 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 7:46 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 30, 2015 at 7:48 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 7:54 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Bob Kelso - August 30, 2015 at 8:41 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 9:37 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Bob Kelso - August 30, 2015 at 9:59 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 10:17 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 30, 2015 at 10:26 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 10:34 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 30, 2015 at 10:40 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by AFTT47 - August 30, 2015 at 11:54 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 30, 2015 at 10:46 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Regina - August 30, 2015 at 11:56 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 31, 2015 at 12:04 am
RE: Death Penalty - by AFTT47 - August 31, 2015 at 12:26 am
RE: Death Penalty - by Thumpalumpacus - August 31, 2015 at 1:34 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 31, 2015 at 1:51 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Catholic_Lady - August 31, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Chad32 - August 31, 2015 at 6:33 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Catholic_Lady - August 31, 2015 at 6:39 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Ravenshire - August 31, 2015 at 10:13 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by GenericAthiest - August 31, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: Death Penalty - by Pyrrho - September 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm

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