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Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:13 PM

So are you for or against it? And why?
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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:20 PM

yes, I am for it. Some folks just gotta die, is all...

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:21 PM

Yes, I think everyone who reports to work at the Capitol should be punished.
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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:24 PM

RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:47 PM

Oh man...didn't we beat this to death (heh) in the Tookie Williams thread?

Against (in no particular order):

• It's not a successful deterrant
• We execute innocent people
• It costs lots more to execute someone than it does to incarcerate them for life
  
• Remember that "Thou shalt not kill" thing?
  

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:50 PM

I am against capital punishment because I feel that nobody has the right, legal or otherwise, to take another's life.  I am not religious either, I just feel that life is too precious to be destroyed for whatever reason.  Some people do not deserve to live freely within our society but they should be kept in prison indefinitely, not put to death. 
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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:54 PM

For, but I also believe it should be rare.

Unfortunately, what do you do with people who know that there won't be any real punishment for their transgressions? Think about it, life in prison, no parole. What's to keep someone from taking out their frustrations on another inmate or prison personnel?

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 4:58 PM

Sorry if this thread has been done, look at it this way your on your way to 4000th.

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 5:07 PM

Nope, not for it.

RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 5:08 PM



Ditto.

RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 5:25 PM

I'm not against it, but I think that the family of the victim(s) should have the final say. Not that DA's office. I have worked a few 1st degree homicide cases where the defense tried to plea to life without parole. The DA's on those cases knowing it was a slam dunk chose the death penalty. The family on 2 of those cases had no idea how their loved one had been killed and had to sit through every detail of the crime during trial. One mom said it was bad enough to lose a child only to have to live through it again.

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 5:27 PM

Well...any prisoner is potentially a threat to the staff or fellow cons. Should we kill 'em all? 

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 5:28 PM

RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 6:54 PM



Solitary.

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 6:58 PM

I am against it because I believe that killing people is wrong and that there is no exception to that rule. Whether it is Paul Bernardo doing the killing or a state appointed executioner the act - taking a life - is the same.


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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 8:47 PM

For.

RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 8:54 PM

Against it. Who am I to decide something that big? Just don't really think it's my place. Do you want me to decide that for you? Yikes...

RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-05 9:10 PM



No.

Today, if they off another inmate, or particularly a staffer, they will most likely face the death penalty for that crime. That is some deterrent for at least some of the prison population. Take that off the table, and what are you going to do? Put them in prison?

Solitary? They will still have to interact with staffers some times. Also, solitary confinement may truely be a fate worse than death.

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RE: Capital punishment???
BY: Guest on 2006-01-06 2:28 AM

Not really, I don't even know you
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