Capital Punishment is it the Answer to mounting crime? What is to be done?
Is it the answer to adequately protect the UKs public men, women and children is it the re-instatement of both Corporal & Capital Punishment.
Youngsters bought up mindful of the law, good and respectful behaviour. A few clips here & there growing up of enormous benefit to their behaviour / charachter in later years.
Capital punishement for the proven guilty.
I.e. civil murder including rape, child molesation / phedophiles, robbery resulting in deaths + others.
Murder of police officers, firemen, security, military, government elected officials, social workers etc.
All acts of terrorism.
Charged as Guilty: I.e. the evidence, forensic and/or whatever overwhelmingly supporting the charge levied
Trial by Jury convened to assess Guilt or Innonocense.
One trial only: No retrials.
Found guilty: Immediately led outside and publically executed.
Applicable to all alike + immigrants. Everyone, no execptions whatsoever. Their remains burned in total.
Answers:
We have capital punishment in the USA. I am from Oklahoma, we use the death penalty more often than other regions of the country.
You will hear many arguments questioning the deterrent value of the death penalty but once a person is dead they will never kill again.
Tim McVeigh, the man who conducted the Oklahoma City bombing, will never kill again. Roger Dale Stafford, killed six teenagers in a restaurant, killed an Airmen and his family for a pick up, he will never kill again. Tookie Williams, darling of the media, he will never blow a hotel clerks face of again.
The United States tolerated years of high crime rates because it was considered inhumane not to coddle criminals. Once we filled up the prisons and reinstated the death penalty the crime rate went down.
The death penalty does not solve all of your problems but it is a step in the right direction.
For every violent criminal that gets out of jail because of overcrowding, it's thanks to thousands of murdereres just taking up space they don't deserve.
Use the Spell check - "innocence".
I understand where you're coming from, but I NEVER want to see my country resorting to summary executions. Furthermore, the death penalty in America has not prevented some of the most heinous crimes being committed and they have generally high rates of crime in their cities.
Secondly, you cannot reprieve a wrongly convicted person after they have been executed.
I believe in tougher sentencing, harsher prison regimes by default and more robust policing, but capital/corporal punishment is taking a huge step backwards.
Years ago, the laws were fair/just. You killed someone for malcious intent, you were killed. You raped a woman, you rotted in jail. Molest or rape a child, the other
inmates "helped" take care of you. You robbed a bank, you got less time than murder. Today you get 3 to 7 years for murder and 25 years + for robbing a bank. Kill a police officer, you were lucky if you ever saw the light of day out of prison must less the light of day. You were killed. Sure there were times in American history they were extreme and not so fair. Like the case where a 15 year old boy who stole a loaf of bread to help feed his younger brothers and sisters. It was on the opening scene of the "Orphan train." He was hanged. Ended his misery but not his siblings. Today you can see a change. Only thing is it is going to go from bad to worst. So you can hope for reformation or a return to decency. It is not going to happen. If you are not a Born again Saved person (Romans 10:9) attending a bible believing church, you will not understand about Bible prophecy and Revelations which go over how events will be in the end times. Right will be wrong and wrong will be right. You recognize the lawlessness of people, how things have become more burocratic than just swift and through. Its just one of the signs of the end times.
One trial only?? No retrials?? Then immediately executed?
Are you aware of how many innocent people on death row have been released this decade thanks to DNA technology?
No way do I want to live in your scary world - I'd rather live in a CIVILISED society. We also have well founded laws and constitutions in our civilised societies to protect us from political malice and manipulation.
Killing someone does not bring the victim back.
And it's just not worth it if one single innocent person gets executed because the law gets it wrong - and we know the law sometimes gets it wrong.
Thou shalt not kill.
Let God (or karma) sort 'em out (for those who believe in God, why do you want to play God?)
And if they really did do it then while they live, let them think about what they did, and when they die they can face the consequences.
As for executing for acts of terrorism I BEG YOU TO PLEASE watch the movie Road to Guantanamo. Whatever your views, you will think twice. Would you have had Dr Mohamed Haneef executed on the spot in Australia? Oh, please...
Before you rush to judgement on this, take a look at the experience of the United States with capitla punishment. Its not an effective way to prevent or reduce crime and it risks executions of innocent people. Here is some of what we know about the system and a viable alternative, with sources listed below.
Risks of executing innocent people-
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and its not a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.
The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that don’t.
We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.
Death penalty costs. The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process. When the death penalty is a possible sentence, extra costs start mounting up before trial, continue through the uniquely complicated trial in death penalty cases and appeals.
The death penalty doesn't apply to people with money. Its not reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?
The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.
Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.
I was pro-death penalty for a long time, but I have changed my stance over the years, for several reasons:
1. By far the most compelling is this: Sometimes the legal system gets it wrong. Look at all the people who have been released after years of imprisonment because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases. No matter how rare it is, the government should not risk executing one single innocent person.
Really, that should be reason enough for most people. If you need more, read on:
2. Because of the extra expense of prosecuting a DP case and the appeals process (which is necessary - see reason #1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.
3. The deterrent effect is questionable at best. In the U.S., violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty states. This may seem counterintuitive, and there are many theories about why this is (Ted Bundy saw it as a challenge, so he chose Florida – the most active execution state at the time – to carry out his final murder spree). Personally, I think it has to do with the hypocrisy of taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’
4. There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age. When Ted Bundy was finally arrested in 1978, he told the police officer, “I wish you had killed me.”
5. The U.S. government is supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. James 4:12 says that God is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
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Youngsters bought up mindful of the law, good and respectful behaviour. A few clips here & there growing up of enormous benefit to their behaviour / charachter in later years.
Capital punishement for the proven guilty.
I.e. civil murder including rape, child molesation / phedophiles, robbery resulting in deaths + others.
Murder of police officers, firemen, security, military, government elected officials, social workers etc.
All acts of terrorism.
Charged as Guilty: I.e. the evidence, forensic and/or whatever overwhelmingly supporting the charge levied
Trial by Jury convened to assess Guilt or Innonocense.
One trial only: No retrials.
Found guilty: Immediately led outside and publically executed.
Applicable to all alike + immigrants. Everyone, no execptions whatsoever. Their remains burned in total.
Answers:
We have capital punishment in the USA. I am from Oklahoma, we use the death penalty more often than other regions of the country.
You will hear many arguments questioning the deterrent value of the death penalty but once a person is dead they will never kill again.
Tim McVeigh, the man who conducted the Oklahoma City bombing, will never kill again. Roger Dale Stafford, killed six teenagers in a restaurant, killed an Airmen and his family for a pick up, he will never kill again. Tookie Williams, darling of the media, he will never blow a hotel clerks face of again.
The United States tolerated years of high crime rates because it was considered inhumane not to coddle criminals. Once we filled up the prisons and reinstated the death penalty the crime rate went down.
The death penalty does not solve all of your problems but it is a step in the right direction.
For every violent criminal that gets out of jail because of overcrowding, it's thanks to thousands of murdereres just taking up space they don't deserve.
Use the Spell check - "innocence".
I understand where you're coming from, but I NEVER want to see my country resorting to summary executions. Furthermore, the death penalty in America has not prevented some of the most heinous crimes being committed and they have generally high rates of crime in their cities.
Secondly, you cannot reprieve a wrongly convicted person after they have been executed.
I believe in tougher sentencing, harsher prison regimes by default and more robust policing, but capital/corporal punishment is taking a huge step backwards.
Years ago, the laws were fair/just. You killed someone for malcious intent, you were killed. You raped a woman, you rotted in jail. Molest or rape a child, the other
inmates "helped" take care of you. You robbed a bank, you got less time than murder. Today you get 3 to 7 years for murder and 25 years + for robbing a bank. Kill a police officer, you were lucky if you ever saw the light of day out of prison must less the light of day. You were killed. Sure there were times in American history they were extreme and not so fair. Like the case where a 15 year old boy who stole a loaf of bread to help feed his younger brothers and sisters. It was on the opening scene of the "Orphan train." He was hanged. Ended his misery but not his siblings. Today you can see a change. Only thing is it is going to go from bad to worst. So you can hope for reformation or a return to decency. It is not going to happen. If you are not a Born again Saved person (Romans 10:9) attending a bible believing church, you will not understand about Bible prophecy and Revelations which go over how events will be in the end times. Right will be wrong and wrong will be right. You recognize the lawlessness of people, how things have become more burocratic than just swift and through. Its just one of the signs of the end times.
One trial only?? No retrials?? Then immediately executed?
Are you aware of how many innocent people on death row have been released this decade thanks to DNA technology?
No way do I want to live in your scary world - I'd rather live in a CIVILISED society. We also have well founded laws and constitutions in our civilised societies to protect us from political malice and manipulation.
Killing someone does not bring the victim back.
And it's just not worth it if one single innocent person gets executed because the law gets it wrong - and we know the law sometimes gets it wrong.
Thou shalt not kill.
Let God (or karma) sort 'em out (for those who believe in God, why do you want to play God?)
And if they really did do it then while they live, let them think about what they did, and when they die they can face the consequences.
As for executing for acts of terrorism I BEG YOU TO PLEASE watch the movie Road to Guantanamo. Whatever your views, you will think twice. Would you have had Dr Mohamed Haneef executed on the spot in Australia? Oh, please...
Before you rush to judgement on this, take a look at the experience of the United States with capitla punishment. Its not an effective way to prevent or reduce crime and it risks executions of innocent people. Here is some of what we know about the system and a viable alternative, with sources listed below.
Risks of executing innocent people-
124 people on death rows have been released with evidence of their innocence. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and its not a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.
The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that don’t.
We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.
Death penalty costs. The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process. When the death penalty is a possible sentence, extra costs start mounting up before trial, continue through the uniquely complicated trial in death penalty cases and appeals.
The death penalty doesn't apply to people with money. Its not reserved for the “worst of the worst,” but for defendants with the worst lawyers. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?
The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.
Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.
I was pro-death penalty for a long time, but I have changed my stance over the years, for several reasons:
1. By far the most compelling is this: Sometimes the legal system gets it wrong. Look at all the people who have been released after years of imprisonment because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases. No matter how rare it is, the government should not risk executing one single innocent person.
Really, that should be reason enough for most people. If you need more, read on:
2. Because of the extra expense of prosecuting a DP case and the appeals process (which is necessary - see reason #1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.
3. The deterrent effect is questionable at best. In the U.S., violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty states. This may seem counterintuitive, and there are many theories about why this is (Ted Bundy saw it as a challenge, so he chose Florida – the most active execution state at the time – to carry out his final murder spree). Personally, I think it has to do with the hypocrisy of taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’
4. There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age. When Ted Bundy was finally arrested in 1978, he told the police officer, “I wish you had killed me.”
5. The U.S. government is supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. James 4:12 says that God is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
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