Death Penalty Poll

[Victor]

so in the meantime we will just kill innocent people.


What you are saying would be like not treating the symptoms of someone suffering from say a sinus infection. The have a headache, sore throat and runny nose. Of course, there is no reason to relieve these problems as they are no the cause.

[jakethebake]

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so in the meantime we will just kill innocent people.


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We don't know that's the case. In this case you're determining there's an illness w/o ANY symptoms, to use your medical analogy. I doubt we'd prescribe chemotherapy to someone w/o knowing they had cancer.

[tolbiny]

"We don't know that's the case. In this case you're determining there's an illness w/o ANY symptoms, to use your medical analogy"

The symptoms are there- look at Illinois where they put a moratorium on the death penalty as the process was corrupted so badly. There have been signifigant numbers of people on death row who have been released- it stands to reason that some of those who should have been released were not. (in fact if you do a search i am sure you will find a certain number of people who have been proven innocent after they were executed).

[Richard Tanner]

More then that, there was a study in 1999 (I'm sorry I can't remember the name) that found 13 innocent people had been killed. They had later been exhonorated (sp?) of their crime due to new DNA evidence.

Cody

[Hack]

They weren't released because they were innocent.

They were released because there wasn't enough evidence to give them the death penalty.

Some of them were given life in prison instead, btw, which obviously indicates that they were NOT innocent.

[tolbiny]

Read Tanner's post above-
13 people have been shown to be innocent as far as our best technology has been able to show that have ALready been executed. How many more have slipped through?

[zaxx19]

For all the liberals in here 1 quick question:

If Adolph Hitler were found to be living today would you rule out the death penalty as a viable punishmment???

I DONT WANT ACININE RESPONSES LIKE "HES SO OLD HE WILL DIE WHILE HE APPEALS..." OR " UH WELL SINCE HE ISNT ALIVE"

REAL ANSWERS TO THIS REAL ?? PLZ.

[tolbiny]

No.
I am against the death penalty.

I completely understand that if a close friend/family member was murdered i would probably want the death penalty. But i also understand that response is exactly why we need a system to deal with criminals, and not the victims.

[Richard Tanner]

I'll even pull the switch, even though I'm neither Jewish nor a relitive of anyone killed under the Nazis.
I'm not against the death penelty at all, I'm jsut against using it in situations where the accused could be innocent.

"I'm pro suicide, pro assisted suicide, pro abortion, pro death penelty, basically anything that gets the freeway flowing faster I'm for."

Cody

[elwoodblues]

I don't speak for all liberals, just myself. I would rather him be in prison for life without the possibility of parole. I would rather have him meet with psychologists/psychiatrists on a regular basis so we can figure out what makes a piece of §hit like that tic.