Debate: The Death Penalty.

What the!? Where the hell do you live to be getting a year in prison for littering? Around here, it's $500 max.

Anyway, I agree with everyone in this thread excluding Tyrannicide. One kills a person, the killer gets killed. It's way better than spending around 50 years in prison and then getting out on parole(sp?). If they kill again, who's fault is it for letting them out of prison? Eye for an eye as Titus has stated.

Well, considering most killers serve about 12 years, then get out for good behavior is appauling. I mean honestly, anyone can fake "good behavior". The worst part is generally when they get out, they kill someone else and repeat the process.

Thats what the old mesopatamia{sp} laws were. Still, in Canada we have no death penalty, and I agree with that. Maybe because im use to it and its what I believe along with a lot of the country.

I have rights to my beliefs aswell as the rest of you. If they murder 2 or more, give them the DP, 1 should be a life sentence.

Another thing that is dumb is how the defendants try to argue that there client is unstable in the mind and such. What do you have to say about that? they usually get off to like life because they are psychotic.

Well, I don't think you can put a number value as a constraint on giving the Death Penalty. I think it is the severity of the crime really. Of course, murder is murder is murder, and that is severe enough, but I'm talking about additives, like rape, mutilation, etc. along with murdering. That for sure deserves the DP.

Rape isn't killing someone, thats were it is really iffy. You can emotionally harm them and such, but you didn't kill them. But yet, sometimes rapist will get a worse sentence then a murderer, a fault in the system. And do you consider abortion murder? When is it considered murder and such. These are all holes in the system.

He meant rape someone before or after they kill the victim.

I am saying that rape itself is a capital offence, which can be a death sentence or life in jail, worse them some murderes have got.

We know what you are saying, but you took my post out of context. Slim just summed up what you misunderstood. I never said anything about rape alone, I said if someone raped, killed, then mutilated someone, that would surely be grounds to dismiss your, "You have to kill at least 2 people to get the DP" argument.

I have to agree with Titusfied, if you rape like a fifteen year old girl, then you kill her you desever the DP. It goes along with an eye for an eye, you might also get raped in jail. But anyway the DP is a good thing to have it punishes those who commit hanous crimes. Also for every one person killed by the DP, 18 murders are detered.

Also for every one person killed by the DP, 18 murders are detered.

Bullshit. America executes quite a few people, yet we have 11000+ firerm-related homicides per year? Where did you get that statistic from, might I ask. If I was angry enough to kill somebody I can swear to you the death penalty would not frighten me one bit.

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It's in the third paragraph.

That says eight, not eighteen.