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Do you support the death penalty?

Hypothetical situations here.

Do you support the death penalty (in general), and if so, would you support it if a study was released showing one of out of every ten people put to death are later found to be innocent post-punishment.

 
Originally posted by: manlymatt83
Hypothetical situations here.

Do you support the death penalty (in general), and if so, would you support it if a study was released showing one of out of every ten people put to death are later found to be incident post-punishment.
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Then no, I would not support it.
 
if they've been in jail long enough for the sentence to be carried out then they've definitely found Jesus. I say put their new found belief to the test
 
Yeah but I believe in cheaper execution methods. As it stands now it costs more to put a guy to death than to house them for life. Why? Let's make this simpler and cheaper already. How much does it cost for a firing squad? Couple dollars of gas, burial, whatever. Tops $1000. Bill the family too.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Yeah but I believe in cheaper execution methods. As it stands now it costs more to put a guy to death than to house them for life. Why? Let's make this simpler and cheaper already. How much does it cost for a firing squad? Couple dollars of gas, burial, whatever. Tops $1000. Bill the family too.
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umm i dont think the execution part is much of the cost. It's the court time/lawyers.
 
Only if the guy doesn't rescue his kids from a burning house at the cost of his own life. Then we kill him because any self-respecting individual should want to die rather than watch his children die. Preferably we burn him at the stake.
 
Do you really believe 10% of these murderers are innocent? That they're just in the wrong place in the wrong time? How many people do you know personally who are put in that situation? While there are some really crooked cops and DAs in the justice system, the criminals who got put on the spot aren't saints either.
 
Originally posted by: jonks
Only if the guy doesn't rescue his kids from a burning house at the cost of his own life. Then we kill him because any self-respecting individual should want to die rather than watch his children die. Preferably we burn him at the stake.
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Where's all this stake money supposed to come from? We're trying to run a justice system here we're not made of stakes. Let me guess you work for a stake factory right?
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Do you really believe 10% of these murderers are innocent? That they're just in the wrong place in the wrong time? How many people do you know personally who are put in that situation? While there are some really crooked cops and DAs in the justice system, the criminals who got put on the spot aren't saints either.
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what it boils down to for me is whether or not you'd trust a dozen strangers and government bureaucracy with your own life if you found yourself wrongly accused of a crime.
 
Originally posted by: Theb
Originally posted by: jonks
Only if the guy doesn't rescue his kids from a burning house at the cost of his own life. Then we kill him because any self-respecting individual should want to die rather than watch his children die. Preferably we burn him at the stake.
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Where's all this stake money supposed to come from? We're trying to run a justice system here we're not made of stakes. Let me guess you work for a stake factory right?
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No, I'm a vampire, I'm just trying to get you humies to burn up all the stakes you have lying around.
 
i used to be 100% for it, but after losing a family member recently, i can't really wish the pain of losing a father (or close family member) on somebody, regardless of what the person did.
 
I have no problem killing a murderer, however our justice system is not perfect, and the blood of a single innocent man is not worth it, so I say no.

The important thing to me is removing the offenders from society, and both options (life w/o parole or execution) accomplish that. No need to risk an innocent life.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
what it boils down to for me is whether or not you'd trust a dozen strangers and government bureaucracy with your own life if you found yourself wrongly accused of a crime.
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And again I ask, how many people do you know personally regardless of race got accused of murder and is currently sitting on death row. While there are indeed cases where the innocent were wrongly accused, a fine example would be Leonard Peltier, whose case I learned during an American Indian Law course in college, these cases are rare.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Originally posted by: loki8481
what it boils down to for me is whether or not you'd trust a dozen strangers and government bureaucracy with your own life if you found yourself wrongly accused of a crime.
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And again I ask, how many people do you know personally regardless of race got accused of murder and is currently sitting on death row. While there are indeed cases where the innocent were wrongly accused, a fine example would be Leonard Peltier, whose case I learned during an American Indian Law course in college, these cases are rare.
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There have been a number of cases found to have ended in execution wrongfully based on DNA evidence found after the fact. Those cases typically occured before DNA evidence came into play in the 1980s/90s. I don't know how many cases this really is, nor do I feel like coming up with a model to gauge the percentage of wrongful executions. But some of the sentiment being expressed relating to wrongful execution is fueled by those cases.
 
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