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[electricxcherry]

I am opposed to the death penalty. Unequivocably. If I've spelt that word right. But it sounds like how I feel about it

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[callmegilligan]

it actually costs the state more to execute a prisoner than it does to keep them imprisoned for life

[atomic_shamus]

i don't believe that that is entirely true.. however i am opposed to capital punishment.. what we need is another australia.

[misakatsu]

It is true. I was gonna post that and look intelligent. The cost is mostly red-tape and 'soul money'.

[atomic_shamus]

hmm, well i never took the legal costs into consideration, i stand corrected.

[purpledecay]

I'm for it :p If someone sets out to kill someone else and you have absolute proof (dna etc) then just kill them. They wouldn't live a life of suffering in remorse, they don't think that way. Call me callous but i don't see the point of spending money looking after these people till they die. Just kill them and have done. All other sentences should be alot heavyier too.

[ninjacodemonkey]

"I'm for it :p If someone sets out to kill someone else and you have absolute proof (dna etc)"

There's no absolute proof, since it would require everyone involved in the investigation to be incorruptible and infallible. Since that's clearly not the case, as a second's thought would reveal, and as more historical examples prove than I care to name, I take it that you now reverse your position and oppose the death penalty...

...or were you just trying to justify it and that seemed convincing to you?

[purpledecay]

I'm sorry but you are wrong. I admit you can't use dna to prove 100% but you can use it to prove it so near that the chance of error is irrelevent. Are you saying video isn't proof? Yes, there are historical examples but they are historical and didn't have access to todays technology. I stand by my comments.

[ninjacodemonkey]

when I say historical examples, the examples I was referring to don't have anything to do with technology, since we do not have the technology to make police and prosecutors infallible

[atomic_shamus]

yay canada. however we do have many flaws in our justice system, such as a life sentence is 25 years. i mean, i believe in rehabilitation, but some people are just not meant to be released back into society.

thanks for the read.

[alifeintheday]

I do think some people deserve the death penalty. Do you think someone like Hilter or Saddam Hussian deserves to live, even though they've ordered the killing of millions of people because they didn't like them saying what they believed in (be it religion, or rights) or their hair/eye colour? They deserve death. They don't deserve to be kept in a prison (which we pay for) where they can socialise, get educated, have special privaliges when they behave.
I wish there was a place like Azkaban, with DeathEaters. Suck the soul out of you, and leave you. That is a much worse existance...

[sharplea]

Only you can bring HP into this kind of discussion :P

Seriously though, if they show no remorse, kill the fuckers. If they do, make em suffer.

[alifeintheday]

Well, it's true! I've said it many times before! There should be a place like Azkaban...

[sharplea]

Agreed. And first person I would throw in there...Ian Huntley.

[misakatsu]

I'm not sure myself on the death penalty. I believe in eye for an eye definatley, but the issue with me is whether or not it was deserved. I'm talking about heat of passion kills. On one hand they killed someone, but on another their rage just got the better of them. It's a difficult call. Then you'd have to PROVE it was (or was not) heat of passion, and then it's a thin line between the two.