Bye Bye Death Penalty

Well, this is a very, very touchy subject not just with me but alot of people.

Here is my opinion (and opinion only). I have had 2 people that I know incarcerated including one who is serving 6.5 to 40 yrs (he is actually my ex-husband). While I was married to him (before I asked for a divorce), I was on a prison support group for loved ones who were incarcerated, and I got to know loved one even of those who had the death penalty.

Remember, that every murderer, rapist, robber, etc still is a person and has family/friends who love them. I meet (most women) who loved ones on death row that didn't know when their life would end. I remember one time a wife watched as her husband was executed, and he left behind 2 children as well. I grieved for that woman and her children. Do I believe a crime should be punished? Yes, but I believe the "death penalty" should be left to the serial killers only. I live in MD, and we do have the death penalty ( I believe), but I strongly believe it should be changed.

<--- Canadian. We have no death penalty. I HATE this. There are people with DNA and video evidence against them proving that they are the WORST kind of people our society has ever spit out, & MY tax dollars are paying for their living expenses? Paul Bernardo (FAMOUS serial rapist & murderer) even gets PRIVATE housing & security because the other inmates would kill him on sight for the things he did to his own SISTER-IN-LAW... but hey! Why go to Canadian Tire & get a $3 length of rope, why not let us pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for his upkeep? What the hell... he's got rights, doesn't he? The little girls he raped & killed on video & their families... who cares about their rights?

ME that's who. Wish like hell we had the Death Penalty up here. Stupid Canadian Society is too damned NICE!

Do you really think it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to feed, clothe and house one inmate? And it isn't exactly private housing. He is in protective custody in a prison cell for 23 hours a day. He doesn't live in his own private villa.

Sorry, I think using my tax dollars to have some douche murderer appeal a death sentence for 30 years is a waste. The death penalty system is long, arcane, wasteful and should be abolished.

I don't even kill bugs.

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

"A robin red-breast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage."

"We built this city on rock and roll."

I was born in Texas, that should about sum up my view on the subject.

Well I wasn't born in Texas....but I think we have the same views!!

I'm from Texas. We have the death penalty & we USE the death penalty. I agree with it as long as they are 100%, without a doubt guilty of the crime. There are some people that just don't deserve to live.

Wow. Being a person born and raised in Scandinavia, this thread has just completely blown my mind and made me feel truly uneasy...

I had no idea, or maybe more so it had never even crossed my mind that this amount of people could be in favour of the death penalty. And so passionately... Wow.... I'm speechless.

Like said, coming from Scandinavia, our prison systems are famously known for their concentrating on the rehabilitation of prisoners and giving them a lot of freedom. If they are impossible to rehabilitate, they are not evil they are SICK and need medical care and to be kept where they are not a danger to others... not to be killed. The whole idea repulses me.

Because of this approach, Norway, Sweden and Finland have the lowest re-offending rates and the emptiest prisons in the world. Go figure....

I once read an article about y'alls prisons...and I honestly loved the idea. While I am not bothered by the death penalty completely, I do often wonder what condition our country would be in if we actually tried to make our criminals into productive citizens. We spend so much money on our prisons anyway...let's re-evaluate the way we spend it.

I don't know what the specifics are for the places I've lived...you know, since I've never been on death row, I haven't been compelled enough to research it.

BUT I believe that the person should not ONLY BE KILLED if they take someone's life....they should be killed in the same manner!

Shooting, stabbing, choking, burning, beating, dismembering, decapitation....whatever the case may be.

I bet won't like it either.

Sounds good to me.

I don't know what the specifics are for the places I've lived...you know, since I've never been on death row, I haven't been compelled enough to research it.

BUT I believe that the person should not ONLY BE KILLED if they take someone's life....they should be killed in the same manner!

Shooting, stabbing, choking, burning, beating, dismembering, decapitation....whatever the case may be.

I bet won't like it either.

First of all, that is against the constitution.

Second, it's a lot easier said than done. It's one thing to have someone pull a lever, but could you handle burning someone alive? Raping and murdering another human being? Chopping someone's head off? Remember someone would actually have to do that.

I don't know what the specifics are for the places I've lived...you know, since I've never been on death row, I haven't been compelled enough to research it.

BUT I believe that the person should not ONLY BE KILLED if they take someone's life....they should be killed in the same manner!

Shooting, stabbing, choking, burning, beating, dismembering, decapitation....whatever the case may be.

I bet won't like it either.

and this ^ I totally agree, I think there are some real sick freaks out there and they deserve the same pain and torture that they gave out.

But then what does that make the executioner who metes out that punishment of pain and torture?