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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
December 6, 2015 at 2:18 pm
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 11:22 am
I'm against the death penalty mainly for the reason that there can be no guarantee that an innocent person will not be put to death for a crime they did not commit.
I would rather see a guilty person go free than see an innocent person die.
Having said that, if someone hurt a member of my family in such a way that would warrant a death sentence, and the courts were in no doubt that the accused was the perpetrator, I would gladly volunteer to flip the switch.
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 11:28 am
Death is a release, not a punishment.
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 11:36 am
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2016 at 12:54 pm by Chad32.)
There was a recent thread on this. Most people are apparently against it. I think it's appropriate in very extreme cases, because there are some really messed up people out there that I'd rather not share a planet with. I heard a story about a woman who tortured a child put under her care for a week, until the child eventually died, because this girl was caught flirting with boys. She was jailed, and eventually let out on good behavior. I don't think she deserved to be let out after what she did. I think she deserved to be ended. A bullet to the head would be considered merciful compared to what she put the kid through. So I don't want to hear about the death penalty being considered cruel. I don't want to hear about the 4% error rate when we all know that percentage is dropping over time. Sometiems people do somethign so grotesque that I think putting them to death is a reasonable reaction to what they did.
This wouldn't just be about killing someone for killing someone, to me. if someone shoots a person dead in the heat of passion, and honestly regrets it later, I wouldn't give them the death penalty.
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Speaking of death... apparently someone decided to bring this thread back to life.
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 5:20 pm
I'm against the DP. It seems barbaric of a practice, to me.
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 5:33 pm
(December 6, 2015 at 4:12 am)Solus Wrote: If they fixed the death penalty I'd be all for it.
Unfortunately it costs more to put a douche bag to death than it does to keep him in the system.
Bullet to the head. Done.
If the method were the expensive part, don't you think the systems would have figured that out by now? The appeals granted to the condemned (and considering the number of death row innocents have been executed it's obviously not enough) are the expensive part of capital punishment.
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RE: How do you feel about the death penalty?
February 6, 2016 at 5:39 pm
(February 6, 2016 at 12:53 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: I dunno... two months without a single post until today... smells like rotting to me 
Nah... This one was just comatose.
Still, noobs need to read the damned rules they agreed to follow.
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