James06 - 2/8/2013 21:44
To be a pedophile is to be severely mentally ill, are you suggesting we kill everyone with sexual desires that deviate from natures way of reproduction, and/or all people with a mental illness, and especially those with both?!!
There'd certainly be lots of space for those left Adolf.
Juan Mourep - 3/8/2013 03:44
I think it's pretty hypocritical to say how wrong it is to take a life, yet champion a lifetime of torture, while having a pop at Islam in another post for the way they treat their prisoners!
That just stood out in this thread for me :16: :39:
Death penalty, the instant release from further suffering, a get out of jail free card.
It's obviously not a deterrent in the good ol US of A, and who has the right to take someone else's life? Who get's to play God? Who gives themselves the right to order such an action? Beyond who's definition of "reasonable doubt"? What categories of crime fall under this sentence? Where do you draw the line, is a life destroyed, as much a crime as a life taken? Does mental illness stand as a defence? In reality anyone who commits acts that cause mass outrage must have some sort of mental problem, mustn't they? Should they even be in prison?
We have to ask ourselves if it's just vengeance we seek?
The Fear - 3/8/2013 09:37
It isn't a deterrent but it does stop them re-offending!
KILL THEM!
Yeah alphabetically order stop at Y then have a rethink.The Fear - 3/8/2013 10:49
Can't we just start with killing a few and see how it goes?
Oh go in, what's the harm? :13:
Trekker - 2/8/2013 17:43
Villa_Grizzly - 2/8/2013 14:26
No. Never.
Troy Anthony Davis. That case underlined everything that's wrong with the death penalty. Utterly despicable business. Nothing but social blood letting and vengeance for political purposes.
I had never heard of this person so I googled him.
It obviously needs more than a brief overview that I have read but. There seemed to be overwhelming evidence that he was guilty at the time, then people changed their stories and implicated someone else.
As I say, simplistic summary but reason to have doubt surely? Which is my issue with a death penalty.
I actually agree with Rosie, no to death but yes to a severe regime.