Capital Punishment

[Git]

"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime"

As long as there is evidence enough I believe in the death penalty.

Why should the rest of the country be burdened with extra taxation, paying for a lifer who is having a cushy time in jail? Hell, I'd settle for harsher prisons in most cases.

[Libertine]

Why should the rest of the country be burdened with extra taxation, paying for a lifer who is having a cushy time in jail? Hell, I'd settle for harsher prisons in most cases.

Prison is many things Git, but it isn't cushy.

[rah]

until they can prove murder with 100% certainty, it's a flawed idea to have capital punishment.

It's not a deterrent, or America wouldn't have so many murders.

and most studies in America of the costs of keeping someone locked up as opposed to going through the death penalty process have determined that it is more expensive to go for the death route, what with all the appeals etc.

and finally, if we take away someone else's human rights cos they are a criminal, doesn't that just make us as bad as them.

[Number8]

The problem is that there is always a small theoretical chance that the person has been innocent all along and that the justice system has failed them. When it comes to life sentences there is always an opportunity to reverse that damange, throguh some means of compensation. When you put someone through the death penalty that option is lost. The day someone innocent dies in the name of justice, the whole society become murders.

I would however be in favour of withdrawing certain human rights from the most nastiest of criminals. Enroll them all in some sort of medical program that'd benefit the greater good.