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The DEATH Penalty

Poll: Your loved one was murdered in cold-blood.
This poll is closed.
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%
Total 30 vote(s) 100%
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The DEATH Penalty
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RE: Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment by definition?
January 18, 2014 at 6:02 pm (This post was last modified: January 18, 2014 at 6:12 pm by bennyboy.)
Because of modern psychology, I view "punishment" as a method of behavior modification through conditioning, aka learning. Killing someone will certainly modify his behavior, but it will also mean the person never gets the chance to change. More importantly, he will never have the chance to make amends.

If it's obvious someone will never change, and will never make amends, then fuck them. If someone pisses on the umbrella of protection provided by their society by repeatedly violating the rights of others, then I don't think it's unusual at all when that society decides to remove them from existence. And death isn't particularly cruel, when in many other societies, it would have been torture, slow starvation, pictures of your family murdered one by one, and then finally death.
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RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 1:13 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by FlyingNarwhal - January 19, 2014 at 1:45 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 2:11 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by FlyingNarwhal - January 19, 2014 at 3:53 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 1:16 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 1:16 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 1:30 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 1:33 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 1:34 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 1:41 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 1:52 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Angrboda - January 19, 2014 at 2:27 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by KUSA - January 19, 2014 at 2:40 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 2:46 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 3:14 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Minimalist - January 19, 2014 at 4:04 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 4:13 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 4:12 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by FlyingNarwhal - January 19, 2014 at 5:10 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 5:06 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Angrboda - January 19, 2014 at 5:14 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 5:29 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Angrboda - January 19, 2014 at 5:57 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Minimalist - January 19, 2014 at 5:31 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 5:35 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 5:39 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Minimalist - January 19, 2014 at 5:42 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 5:43 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 5:47 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 5:49 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 6:34 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Angrboda - January 19, 2014 at 7:35 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Violet - January 20, 2014 at 1:23 am
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by kılıç_mehmet - January 20, 2014 at 1:31 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Autumnlicious - January 21, 2014 at 1:34 am
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by kılıç_mehmet - January 21, 2014 at 4:36 am
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 20, 2014 at 2:14 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Tiberius - January 21, 2014 at 3:43 am
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 21, 2014 at 10:32 am
RE: Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment by definition? - by bennyboy - January 18, 2014 at 6:02 pm
The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 12:53 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 12:57 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 1:00 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Minimalist - January 19, 2014 at 12:58 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 1:03 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Minimalist - January 19, 2014 at 1:09 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Chad32 - January 19, 2014 at 1:15 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 1:28 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 1:01 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 1:05 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 1:08 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by Cinjin - January 19, 2014 at 1:12 pm
RE: The DEATH Penalty - by EgoRaptor - January 19, 2014 at 1:15 pm

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