Should capital punishment be brought back?

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Chris

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Something like that.

[tweetiepooh]

It's a hard question. What if you lived somewhere without any social provision so that if you had nothing and were convicted of murder and gaoled for life at least you have board and lodging and not starving on the street? In that situation would the death penalty not be a more real deterrent to killing while committing a lesser crime?

True this does not quite apply here, so I would be against the death penalty. There is far too much chance of a wrong conviction which is very hard to overturn. Plus add all the time spent with appeals on death-row you could end up with long term incarceration and then a death penalty. We may need an approach that better rehabilitates those convicted with appropriate longer terms as needed.

[Pierre]

I flip flop on this, but todays the wind is blowing towards YES.

[Russ]

It's one of those emotive subjects. If something happened to one of my kids, don't worry about Court justice, just put me in a room with him/her for 10 minutes and if anything is left of them, they should be allowed to leave and carry on with whatever sorry life they have left.

Taking that level of emotion out of it, I would want to see them suffer in jail for many, many years. Rehabilitate if the authorities deem it appropriate, but while they are in this plane of existence, I want their life to be hell while behind bars.

[Dude111]

I picked I DONT KNOW because they cannot be 100% sure someone murdered someone and thus they should not do it themselves!


Its a bad system to do this..... If I could I would change my answer to NO on the poll...