Welcome to ASFN Fan Forums! We're glad to have you here. Please feel free to browse the forum. We'd like to invite you to join our community; doing so will enable you to view additional forums and post with our other members.
Registered Members don't see these ads. Register now it's free!
View Poll Results: Do you support Capital Punishment?
I said no. I go back and forth on whether it should be permissible when one who actually murdered is executed, but because it's inevitable that an innocent person will occasionally be executed, I'm against it.
Location: on the run from johnny law... ain't no trip to cleveland
Posts: 9,352
A$FN: 1,000
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kolobotomy
I said no. I go back and forth on whether it should be permissible when one who actually murdered is executed, but because it's inevitable that an innocent person will occasionally be executed, I'm against it.
Yes I do. With the advances in DNA Investigating, it will eliminate a lot of the problems with the death penalty. Ultimately, there are some people out there who are such a threat to society they can never be returned to said society.
I said no. I go back and forth on whether it should be permissible when one who actually murdered is executed, but because it's inevitable that an innocent person will occasionally be executed, I'm against it.
I go back and forth with that, too.
But the kicker for me is, if someone murdered my mom or dad, I would want that sucker to fry.
I've actually become less hard-core with saying yes towards capital punishment, as time as gone on. I'm learning a lot about the types of people in prison, and those who murder, etc. It's not so cut and dry as I once thought.
__________________
I.D. badges are long overdue. Security in this office park is a joke. Last year, I came to work with my spud gun in a duffel bag. I sat at my desk all day, with a rifle that shoots potatoes at 60 pounds per square inch. Can you imagine if I was deranged? - Dwight K. Schrute
I voted 'yes' but in all honesty I would prefer for the bastards to be worked to death. Food and Water is all they get. No entertainment of any kind. No communications with any inmates and limited with guards. They get the bare minimum to survive while working 18 hour days (hard labor).
__________________ All Hell is breakin loose!!!!!
An unarmed person is a subject. An armed person is a citizen.
Used to be a yes until I thought about it and am a definate NO now.
CP is revenge pure and simple and IMO can't be justified in what we like to call a civilized society.
I understand how the relatives and friends of a victim might want that revenge and probably I was as well but that doesn't make it right.
Offenders can be kept of the street without it. It obviously is not a deterent [given the murders we get in the US] and it costs more than life inprisonment.
I voted 'yes' but in all honesty I would prefer for the bastards to be worked to death. Food and Water is all they get. No entertainment of any kind. No communications with any inmates and limited with guards. They get the bare minimum to survive while working 18 hour days (hard labor).
apart from the yes, I see little problem with Portland's solution. Just because I no longer support Cp, does not mean I have much concern what happens to the offenders.
Under certain circumstances and for certain crimes I say yes.
I think there is a deterrent factor to executions.
Now if prisons really did rehabilitate people instead of making them better criminals that could be a positive step to eliminating capital punishent IMO.
If lesser crimes could be reduced by helping people fit better into lawful society then perhaps simple imprisionment could be considered enough deterrent for the more serious crimes.
__________________
“votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.” ~H. L. Mencken
And, I also like that the taxpayers aren't paying for a lifetime of room and board.
Many people are happy with revenge [and at least you are honmest enough to admit it] but it shows that we have a very long way to go before we can consider ourselves civilized. We are, it would seem, one step beyond lynch mobs, at least we have a trial before the lynching.
Room and board are cheaper than an death sentence, fact.
Cosmic Defender Champion!
Moon Lander Champion!
All Hell is breakin loose!!!!!
Linear Mode
