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Originally Posted by peanutkp

It was quite an interesting program, but the most poignant part for me was when the bloke from the US said 'why'? Why should they not be allowed some suffering at the end.

If the end was something that's not feared, eg, go out with euphoria and on a high smiling, or go out screaming, with your head on fire and your eye balls popping out of their sockets, I know what would be the best as a deterrent.

All those on death row are guilty of some pretty bad crimes, as the bloke said, 'who cares', the results are all the same.

are all on death row guilty ? its debatable if they are,there have been cases where innocents have been put to death.

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Originally Posted by murfitUK

As a society, we have set out rules which you have failed to abide by. As a result we are going to kill you.

You may have committed the most horrendous, heinious crimes imagineable and have proved to be the **** of the earth.

But despite all that, we will treat you with dignity and humanity, and ensure your death is as painfree as possible because we, as decent human beings, have no desire to sink to your level.

Also, we often mess up and put innocent people to death - so if you are later found to be innocent it will help us sleep more easily knowing you didn't suffer too much in your final moments. After all, the next wrongly convicted person might be me.

wwell put murf

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Far from all, since 1976 over a 100 people have been exonerated, 796 have been executed, it's a shocking record imo and I wonder how many of those dirt poor offenders would even be on death row if they could afford decent legal representation?

my thoughts to.

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Justice should not be about revenge.
If murder is taking a life with malice, then the state execution should be taking a life as punishment and without malice, otherwise it's no different to murderers.

Course, I dissagree with the death penalty as you can't make amends to an innocent man you've executed.
Posthumous pardons only help the family, not those wrongfully convicted.
One innocent man executed is one too many.

Watched a documentary about Albert Pierrepoint, and that was very interesting, the amount of pride he took in his work, ensuring everything went properly so that the condemned would suffer the least possible.

as you say,you cant bring back the person who's been executed and tell them you made a mistake,also sorry is a hollow word to the family and friends of a person wrongly executed.

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Originally Posted by TheNorm

Well if capital punishment is meant to be a deterrent then it isn't working very well, is it?

no norm it aint.