Are you for or against the death penalty

[NuNii0hS0FLii]

I dont know, really not either way as of this moment.

[Kathryn C]

I find it Completely Stumping to me that the "Christian Right" who believes it sin to commit abortion believes in the death penalty.

[AnnonO]

[QUOTE=Kaill]:frazzled:

Please, please, PLEASE tell me you're just being facetious...[/QUOTE

No, I am dead serious.........Would you feel the same way if this pregnant woman murdered your mother, father, wife or husband?

[kkdd]

Due to the errors that have occured and will occur in trials, as seen by having people being found not guilty after years of being in jail the death penalty should not be used. It doesnt allow for correcting mistakes.

Death is final, a life sentance can be corrected and the person wrongly convicted can be compensated, a dead man can not.

[Via!]

One thing for certain is no criminal that has been ever executed ever re offended again.........

You can not say the same thing for criminals that have been sentenced to life without parole..........

[199 more to lvl 3 (1000)]

Figures for numbers of executions last year are just below 4000.

3,400 of those are attributed to China.

But some sources suggest the real Chinese figure may be as many as 10,000.

The United States figure is 59.

Approximatly 7,800 people were sentenced to death last year.

(RTE News)

Whoah! Last time I heard figures for this China was not nearly as bad and the United States was considerably worse, I wish I could remember what that source was, it was a few years ago. Probably bogus. Does the annual number of executions in the US fluctuate much?

[Owen]

As for non-violent criminals...drugs such as herion, weed, coke, and what not should be illegal for many reasons...1) we don't need to be like amsterdam 2) with herion and what not you stand a high chance of having many more deaths which can lead to some issues as I am sure you can imagine...I would say we should legalize weed so long as every other country does it. But just because it is non-violent doesn't mean anything to me. Shop-lifting is non-violent and that is ****. To those that are thinking "well shop-lifting effects someone else" well so does drug use.

[morph]

I think, lady x, that if we were to use that criteria very often then nothing would ever get done. People have been arrested for DWI and found not guilty. Rape, kidnapping, etc.
Now i understand there's a level of severity talking about death, but IMO there are some folks just too freakin' evil to be allowed to exist. I'm prepared to live with a small percentage of mistakes, tho I hope it never happens to me.

[Jonathan18]

And when "they" are executed, care will be taken to swab the skin where the needles are placed with alcohol.

[ryu_hindustani]

WOW! Remember though shalt not commit murder????