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Originally Posted by foreverwar
You still haven't answered the points about a country that has the death penalty has five times the murders and people in prison - which part of the deterrent of the death penalty is working there?
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It's not sentencing that will deter... Even the death sentence...
It's the perceived risk of getting caught... The punishment isn't even considered if they think the risk of getting caught is very low...
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Originally Posted by alferret
Re: the title of this thread.
Executions are ment to be nasty, they show to others that if you kill directly or indirectly and found guilty. Then in accordence to the law of the country your in you may be sentenced to death by whatever means deemed by the law.
Do people honestly think that its ok for person "A" to kill (because it is predominantly killing that gets a death sentence) someone and get a life sentence doing a "cushy number" at the expense of the people?
An eye for an eye IMO.
Does it matter if its painful? Does it matter if there is any distress for the person being executed? it doesnt matter, because for those last fleeting moments that person who is being injected, electrocuted or hung will feel only a tiny bit of what the family, friends and loved ones felt at the loss of the person who person "A" took the life of.
Hang em, Hang em long and Hang em high. Thats my opinion.
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as murfit has said:
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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.
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Losing their life is punishment enough...