Simply put, I would support the Death Penalty if and only if you could prove that every person being given that punishment is completely innocent. I beleive crazy serial killers should be put to death. But one innocent life is one too many. It's the same as abortion. Why kill an innocent baby when it has no say in it's future and could very well live a happy life? If one person is given the Death Penalty for a crime they didn't do, it's completely unjust, morally wrong, and against our constitution.

I have to agree. That is actually only one of two problems I have with the death penalty (The other being the fact that the prisoners have to wait in their cells while they know death is coming). Once the punishment's been carried out, there's no taking it back. I especially have problems with it in cases like Scott Peterson's. He's screwed, and there was no real damning evidence (from my POV)

Agreed.

I'd suggest watching The Life of David Gale. The basic premise is enough to raise doubts about the death penalty for me.

I don't need doubts. I think what we need to do is ask ourselves why we are so concerned with protecting the rights of killers. You can't assume that every person on Death Row is innocent and therefore do away with it altogether, what's next, letting people get away with murder cause we can't be 100% sure they did it?

I think people need to start being more concerned with protecting the people in SOCIETY instead of killers. We say executions are inhumane. So raping and murdering people IS humane? Ok then, send somebody in to do to this perp the same thing he did to his victims. I think we forget that these people were convicted of murder. Yet we go out of our way to defend them. Yet, we ignore the helpless ones in our society. They're on their own. Apparently, they just don't deserve our help. Some people seem to think that banning a specific weapon helps the people. That's just dumb. We shouldn't be going after weapons. We should be cracking down on CRIMINALS! Yet, we're trying to protect the lives of criminals, meanwhile, more and more innocent victims are killed, and again, more and more criminals get away with it because we just don't give a damn about the rights of victims. In America, the dirty little truth is that we only give a damn about securing the rights of criminals.

I don't support the death penalty because we have no right to say on who lives or dies. Who the hell gave us the right to play God? I have never and will never protect the rights of bustards that hurt innocent people. I live in VA, 10 min. away from Washington, DC. When 9/11 happened and when that plain hit the Pentagon I was in the 6th grade. I remember it like it was yesterday, from some rooftops you could see the smoke coming from the Pentagon. I remember how terrified I was because majority of my family either live and/or work there. The VA Tech shooting, I not only have friends there but family too when it happened. I am a survivor of child molestation. So don't even give me sh*t about protecting the rights of murders and rapist. I've been through hell and back because of bustards but that does not mean I will support the death penalty. I'm the LAST person who would EVER protect there RIGHTS. Like I said who gives us the right to play God, in the end it won't be us the decides on who goes to heaven or hell. Answer me that and I'll leave it alone.

Well, who gave them the right to play God? Who gave them the right to take away the lives or innocence of others? They didn't play fair, why should we?

And I thought we're supposed to separate church and state? If we're separating church and state, then playing God isn't a factor. We have every right to execute somebody who shows zero regard for the rights of others. It's not about saying who lives and who dies. It's about getting people WHO DO THAT out of this world. You are concerned with their rights. You just don't know it.

BTW, who the hell gave us the right to "play God"? Well, in this context, God gave us those very rights, and in fact, in certain extreme cases, obligation, to execute certain criminals.

Permanent solitary confinement is too expensive.

You say its too expensive. Then where the hell did we get the money for Iraq? Because to me it seems we do have money, we just don't spend it where its needed and where its not being needed its being spent.

Money isnt really an issue when your country rules the world.

The Death Penalty simply doesn't work. There will always be killers on the lose, who will probably want to kill themselves anyways. Soloitary confinement is perfectly affordable and a better, more humane , SAFER punishment. If someone is found innocent, all you have to do is release them instead of mourn over killing an innocent civilian. And think about the person who has to deal with killing this person? I beleive in God, so technically, the executioner is sinning by killing the innocent put under the penalty. Who cares if it's only a small number of innocent people being given the death penalty for a crime they didn't commit? If it was the person you loved the most about to be given the death penalty for a crime you KNOW they didn't commit, would you shrug it off and say"Well, it's only ONE innocent person? I doubt that, completely.

If they implement the death penalty there has to be good evidence. I believe in God too. As for your humane comment they don't torture them they do a leathal injection and they fall asleep befor they die they don't feel anything.

About solitary confinement. It worse than death. I have seen the affects it has had on people, I have one messed up family, (not the worst family, but a prety weirs one.). Confinement actually has turned people INSANE. They start seeing tthings, hearing things. Humans are meant to be around people. We aren't meant for lonelines. Confinement is a mental torture. Death can be over it smal amounts of time, but if your crazy, that can last the rest of your life.

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