Death penalty

[ecudc]

after all the media hype surrounding jon venables return to jail it seems that a lot more people than I would have though are in favour of the death penalty so I thought I would put together this little poll.

 

[Becki xX]

I'd happily pull the trigger.

 

[Rachel89]

Nope Iv'e had a friend sent down for something he did not do, two years later that was proved when the person who did seriously injured someone else.
If there was the death penalty you would then be killing someone innocent....grrrrr.

 

[donnamt]

in favour but im not sure id want to do it myself lol

i would only want certain types of criminal dead, pedos and child killers oh and the burgulars who made me scared of the place i loved once :evil::evil::evil:

 

[gemmam]

Totally against for all three of the reasons you mention.

 

[HS]

Nope not in agreement. We shouldn't take another's life - it makes you as bad as them.
I did think I was for it for a while, but I have a criminology degree and it was one of the first essays I had write and I concluded the above.

 

[Smooch]

I've voted 'not in favour - other' as I think it's the easy way out for the killer. I say give them life meaning life and make them earn their keep while they're inside by doing some sort of production work. No prisoner should get a free ride. Prisons should be run as a business and the prisoners should be made to work or they don't get fed, etc.

 

[Jack-Bun]

I agree with it. But I couldn't kill someone else.
I think they should use hanging for Peaod's and Murderers etc etc...

But then I think that if for instance with a Murderer, they deserve to suffer, and be tortured like their victims, so killing them would be a quick and easy death...

 

[Jack's-Jane]

Not in favour- two wrongs dont make a right.

 

[Candiflare]

I put that no human should kill another human. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Do you know there was a very similar case to Jamie Bulger's case in Swizerland, not long after the actual Jamie Bulger murder. Two boys, 10 and 11 murdered a 2 year old boy after watching violent films about torture. Do you know what the Swiss did? They put them back in school and took them away from their parents. They changed nothing else at all about their lives. It forced them to come to terms, as the years passed, with what they had done, in the context of their peer group, all the news coverage, their new parents, their school friends, the life they could have led had it not been for what they did. That was a greater lesson to learn with graver consequences on the conscience than being locked up from age 11 and kept mollycoddled in a prison until 2001.

 

[Bavarian Bunny]

I am against it. Some people are innocent, others have serious mental health issues. Where do you draw the line between who is a cold blooded killer and a mentally ill person. I think more people need to be locked away forever, but they should stay alive and do some useful jobs in prison, so that the taxpayer does not have to fund their life too much.

 

[Sue&Sooty]

So if you took this argument concerning Jon Venables back to when he killed Jamie, he was 10 years old.... how many of you still think that he should have been executed? :? He was a 10 year old child .... how many of you could, hands on heart, say that you would be happy if he'd been killed?


I know I couldn't.. most children who commit crime of any nature have usually had awful. disfunctional upbringings and although it is not an excuse for the crimes committed, it must be taken into account.

I do think though that prisions are too soft now... as much as trying to rehabilitate is a good idea, prision should also be a hard way of life.. somewhere no-one would want to go and certainly not somewhere that people would ever want to go back to

 

[antigone]

Nobody has the right to take somebody's life.
I totaly disagree with the death penalty.

 

[donnamt]

So if you took this argument concerning Jon Venables back to when he killed Jamie, he was 10 years old.... how many of you still think that he should have been executed? :? He was a 10 year old child .... how many of you could, hands on heart, say that you would be happy if he'd been killed?


I know I couldn't.. most children who commit crime of any nature have usually had awful. disfunctional upbringings and although it is not an excuse for the crimes committed, it must be taken into account.

id have let him rot in prison until 18 then let him be executed as an adult

 

[Jack-Bun]

So if you took this argument concerning Jon Venables back to when he killed Jamie, he was 10 years old.... how many of you still think that he should have been executed? :? He was a 10 year old child .... how many of you could, hands on heart, say that you would be happy if he'd been killed?


I know I couldn't.. most children who commit crime of any nature have usually had awful. disfunctional upbringings and although it is not an excuse for the crimes committed, it must be taken into account.

I could. I might seen heartless or whatever, but I think if he was old enough to know he was taking someones life - he is old enough to realise what he did wrong and therefor should face the consequence whatever it may be - even if it is death.

 

[Rachel89]

But then what happens if the persons innocent.....you would be killing someone who has done nothing wrong. Now that I don't know how anyone could live with and you would be just as bad.

 

[theresa]

i dont believe in the death penalty,,i can understand totally parents whose children have been murdered or abused if they took matters into their own hands,,but one mistakes are made all the time ,,and two the criminals are less likely to allow witness who have seen them survive if they think they could be identified,,they will become more violent,,plus as has already been said we will become as bad as them

 

[VickiP]

This is an emotive subject and you have to think about it and the cases where there is no doubt or even confessions of guilt from the criminals. I think these days with DNA and the technology available it is sometimes possible to prove catagorically that someone is guilty or indeed they confess and with evidence / witnesses etc it is confirmed as true.

I think when they are without doubt guilty of murder yes there should be the death penalty available to be used. I think the choice of death should be hanging, firing squad or lethal injection but, yes I could do it if the person is without doubt guilty.

 

[VickiP]

But then what happens if the persons innocent.....you would be killing someone who has done nothing wrong. Now that I don't know how anyone could live with and you would be just as bad.

In reality it would only be applicable when there is no doubt whatsoever.

 

[Sue&Sooty]

But then what happens if the persons innocent.....you would be killing someone who has done nothing wrong. Now that I don't know how anyone could live with and you would be just as bad.

Exactly..

I don't see how anyone can justify killing another human... wether it be a 'murderer' or an 'executioner'....... they both result in loss of life so don't see how one can be seen as a crime and the other as legal :?