Do you believe in capital punishment?

scotslad60

No. Capital punishment is revenge not justice.

If a con doing an armed robbery is shot dead at the scene by coips then that is justice. Murdering them months or years later is not!

sheeny

Yes. Some people can't be rehabilitated. And a life sentence does not mean life. They will get out at some point.

lozzielaws

Yes. I would have no problem taking the life of a murderer, peadophile or rapist.

My cousin was murdered, my other cousin was viciously raped, stabbed, strangled and left for dead by a peadophile, and I know the torment that both these incidents have caused.

The family should have a say in the sentance for these people. an eye for an eye, is what I say.

Sod all the bleeding hearts mob, and the human rights lot, I would want justice, and to me that is to remove them from this world.

Wolf

Yes, even the Bible says, a life for a life.

vanamont7

That's two questions. Yes I believe in capital punishment. If you murder you should forfeit your own life.

rafik

well,it all depend on severity of the crime but i think and that's only my opinion we should start by those who harm kids,you know what i mean paedophiles,they should be the first to be executed without any hesitation.

Mark D

I think it's a capital idea. Where's the switch?

Tracker

Yes, and yes. No problem.

Hendo

Yes. Without doubt.

hakuna matata

Yes if they are proved beyond doubt that they are guilty of this crime of murder.I would not bother with selection by lottery, I would take the job on permanently.

jane l

I absolutely do. I believe it's the best way to get rid of the most violent criminals who are a waste of humanity.
Some are better off dead and it is better for the protection of all society.

Criminals should be put to death for only the most horrible and brutal of crimes, like torture before the death, child rape and murder, serial killers.

It should be used when there is DNA evidence, confession, all evidence pointing to the obvious and a guilty verdict by a jury of the offender's peers.

If you know anything about what crimes occur, and what evil man is capable of, you could only agree that some need to be put down like the animal they are.-- Antisocial personalities, psychopaths, who torture and kill--These people are without conscience and can never be rehabilitated, the best thing is to end them.

Edit: And NO, killing brutal murderers does NOT bring us down to their level, I suppose one might think that if they are completely incapable of weighing out ethics.
If you can't tell the difference between a child predator who rapes, tortures and kills children -sometimes many of them!Making the parent's life a living nightmare-some committing suicide- creating a chain reaction of misery for the family,
and those who catch the animal and painlessly put them down for it,
you are an idiot.
sorry.

Lorraine A

Yep, cant wait for Saddam to be hung!!

Glee

Yes I do believe in capital punishment. Although I think if I were selected by lottery to execute someone that would be hard. Good question.

T - C - B

Yes we should, i think alot of people want it back (well all the people i have chatted with)

But as with everything in the uk, although it is supposed to be a democracy,we are not listened to?

When i say yes i mean with child abusers, rapist's, murderers etc....

Lady Langley

Yes, but if selected by lottery I would also like the law that imparts such a sentence to be something the people vote on---not grandiose generalities such as capital punishment for a police officer----while I have utmost respect for law officers, they are not the only human services personnel to put their lives on the line---every paramedic, every emergency room personnel, every security guard etc....the list could be endless.
What about the people who torture innocent children and disable them emotionally and physically for life? Or the serial rapist who has emotionally destroyed women and families for possibly generations? Or the batterer who eventually kills his wife---how is that not murder 1 when the world could see it coming...all a matter of time....so?

pandion nights

Everyone has the right to live and work on this earth, as long as , humans are killing humans we have no chance, wars that rage on the planet, this is murder, as is capital punishment and therefore any government that deals in either of these nightmares is logically going to have to shoot itself in its metaphorically head asap.

Governments get away with murder by using emotional response mechanisms IE Capital punishment can be revenge when a relation is faced with "losing" a loved one through murder or any other violent crime a understandable reaction from relations and bloodthirsty baying crowds who are addicted to death much as in the same way as the romans were in ancient history, a deep humanistic headanism

There is a much deeper answer within this area, taking life gives "power" to the sytem that deals it, much in the same way as in some cultures, Papue New Guina, South America One man will revenge a wrong done by a man from another village (rape, murder)by murdering and eating the perpetraitor of the crime!!! They believe this gives them the power from the individual and i am no doubt it does to a degree in there enviroment. The Aztecs did this on a bigger scale as did the Nazis, Kymer Rouge, United States. 300 wars since 1911 100 million humans slaughtered just jimagine what really is happening and take a breath in and pray to life

Personal on paper i disagree with revenge but i am sure i would feel differently if the latter effected me.
Killing people is never right its not like we are totally immersed within nature, we have choices in our survival, in the planets survival, ultimately this is the same choice, Choose life!

love and light

arqui

NO, and is not stated in the Holly Bible,
Tallion Law said so.

But I AGREE with capital punishment

leonard c

.No .too many people have been found innocent after execution,wouldnt want to take reasonably for that

goddess

No - there is absolutely no data supporting the effectiveness of capital punishment as a deterent to crime. All it does is end the life of a known criminal who is already caught and imprisoned. Hence - no longer a danger to society.

...and if elected by lottery - I would pass to one of the other people who answered yes.

jthoms9800

No.

Huey Freeman

I am against it. Now, if you so accuse me of it, I am not anywhere near pro-criminal. My figure is, that due to the fact that God is the final judge, I think that few, no, nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period.

Doyle

Capital punishment is wrong just throw them in jail for life

Daystar

No. but quite a few states & foreign Countries do. In some muslim countries you get behaded in the public square for certain crimes.
The European Common market Countries do not have the death penalty.
In the US some states will kill you if you killed someone. But it takes long time because of the court system. I will die before I will kill a fly, by lotteri or not. All living things have a right to live.

Graham W

No.

somekindahero

I've a feeling you're going to get some passionate answers for this one! I definitely don't believe in it. Firstly, it doesn't work as a deterrent - see the U.S's crime rate for proof, it's no lower in the states which practise it. Secondly it's basically bringing the state down to the same level as the murderer - why are we any better if we murder too? And thirdly, what about all the people in the past who've been wrongly accused and convicted of murder? There are hundreds and a posthumous pardon doesn't do much for either them or their grieving families.
I'm no tree hugger, but there's just no logical argument for this.

migdalski

No 'cos I consider myself too civilised to cope with it.

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