Death Penalty - Your Comments

[GadgetMaster]

@KennyR

KennyR wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4219627.stm

Woah Man! I had no idea. :-o

After seeing what you've been through I can really understand why your pent up frustrations often result in vitriolic outbursts.

Did you receive counselling afterwards? Those (Bleeps)have a lot to answer for :pissed:

Err, just a little question if you don't mind. do they have broadband or dial-up on death row?

I jest! I jest! :-P

Oh yeah. about the topic.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent people are given the death penalty all the time but their lives have no significance. It isn't reported or even discussed. They are just brushed away as 'collateral damage'
Where's the justice in that :-?

[WinterStar]

Woohoo, first post here, chaps!  :-D

The Death Penalty, if performed efficiently, would be a very beneficial aspect to society. Even if most punishments are little effect as crime deterrents (imo, fighting the cause of crime makes more sense than dealing with a crime itself), the Death Penalty still eliminates scum from the gene pool.

The problem is the complexity. Being logical, if you're going to kill someone, why have Death Row when they're going to die anyway? Just shoot them in the head and be done with it.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Now if one of the moderators would ban you from this forum, to keep this forum clean...

[X-ray]

Come on Toy Boy, you can't ask for somebody to be banned because he has an opposite viewpoint

[Speelgoedmannetje]

of course,
but I CAN when someone trolls with undebatable fascistic statements

[odin]

You can ask all you want, but whether it will be acted upon is very doubtful :-).

[PMC]

I understand your feelings on this subject Speel, but everyone's entitled to an opinion.  

My own viewpoint is that capital punishment is unjustifiable and flawed.  I also believe that there is no "quick and efficient" way of executing someone as botched executions are more commonplace than you think, and that the law must be 100% correct before any permanant action (ie execution, mutilation, castration etc) is carried out.

However, if someone close to me was murdered in cold blood I know that my emotions would be somewhat different and I'd be baying for their blood or their tender parts on the chopping block.

Just trying to bring a little balance here folks...

[Speelgoedmannetje]

No, tis the way he brings this controversial pov,
as if: "all your thoughts about a just system is {bleep}
just shoot and forget
discuss what you can, and no matter how many ppl in history have thought about this
they are as well as you are wrong anyway
Period"

It's his/her first post, wich is put here as an undebatable rock-solid "this is it and not otherwise" so called healthy pov

but the way I see it is that it's plain trolling.

[Wilse]

I don't agree with the death penalty under any circumstances, although I can understand the demand for it in high-emotion cases.

@Kenny & X-Ray:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4219627.stm

The Kenny Richey case is an interesting one. I'm not convinced he's innocent.

Something I found really despicable was the way the tabloids reported on his case, coupled with the Luke Mitchell case.
On the same front page (I think it was 'The Sun') I saw two headlines.
The main one was something like "Inside the mind of a MONSTER" and was a story about 16yr old Luke Mitchell, who had been convicted the day before of murdering his girlfriend.
The second was something like "Justice at last" and was about Richey being freed from death row.

The thing that struck me was, neither of these cases is conclusive.
Mitchell could very well be innocent and Richey could very well be guilty.
Despite this, the tabloid trash are happy to paint one a hero and the other a monster.
Sad and disgusting.
The worst bit is the masses buy this pish and believe it.