What are your beliefs about the death penalty?

FOG_USA

I don't believe in the death penalty, period!

It is not justice, it is revenge!

I just moved to the State of Wisconsin this year and this State doesn't have the death penalty, thank GOD!

I lived most of my life in the State of Illinois, which does have the death penalty and has lethal injection as the means of murdering the murderer! Yes, I did say "murdering the murder!"

Look how many people have been released from death row in the past 10 to 15 years because DNA proved they were not guilty! How many more might be proved not guilty as DNA testing gets better as time goes on?

What most people don't know or seem to care about here is how many executions here in the States have gone wrong and the condemned man/woman died horribly!

There was an electrocution in the State of Florida back in 1999 where the man being executed had his nose broken before the electrocution even started because the guard put the leather strap that holds the persons head in place in the wrong spot and the man could not breathe! When the electricity was finally turned on, the man, who suffered from high blood pressure, had blood explode out of his nose and a large pool of blood formed on the front of the mans white shirt! The judge who sentenced him to death found out and had the pictures the prison staff took of the man just after the execution posted on the web and has now become an anti-death penalty judge!

There was an electrocution a few years before that in the State of Texas where the man being executed had his head burst into flame because the cone on his head had a faulty wire!

For those who think that lethal injections are "easy and humane" on the condemned person you should do a little research on the lethal injections that have gone wrong not only in the United States, but in other countries as well!

Those are just some of over 60 cases I have researched on mistakes made during executions here in the United States that have caused the condemned to suffer horrible and very cruel deaths!

I will never understand how any country that calls itself civilized can pass laws saying that murder is wrong, and it is, and then go and do the same thing to a person they convict of murdering someone!

In case you or anyone reading this doesn't know, when a person in the United States is executed, the coroner by law has to list the persons death as a homicide! Which the American HeritageÂ® Dictionary of the English Language
states is = NOUN:

The killing of one person by another.
A person who kills another person.

Which in this country is a class X felony, and can get the murderer the death penaly in most states, but you don't here about the executioners being arrested and tried for murder, do you?

Life with out parole is on the books in most states and should be the worst thing that can be done to a convicted murderer!

Peace

Scat

TEXAS RULES!!!!!

The Hat

I believe the death penalty is about deterrence.

If the threat of getting the death penalty has deterred one murder, then it has saved an innocent person. I also don't believe the death penalty is inhumane - that person has died in a more humane way than his or her victim.

flika

Some argue lethal injection is inhumane, I don't.

I think the electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, etc are much worse.

Other than lethal injection the only other method I would consider humane is firing squad, fast and effective.

roadhazzards

it works 100% of the time it's applied.

sniper boy .308

Mommy says that I shouldn't talk about that.

i got haters

we use lethal injection also. i believe the death penalty is the best thing ever. i believe we should use firing squad instead though. much cheaper.

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