Opinion of "The Death Penalty"

[The Dowager Mod]

Institutionalized murder.

[NewFederalist]

I do not oppose it in principle but in practice... the endless mandated appeals... the 10 to 20 years before all the legal hurdles are cleared... it is too costly. Life in prison without parole and just be certain the prison is not too "nice". No law libraries, no cable TV, no golf or bowling just 23 hours a day of lockdown and one hour of shackled exercise. As Boss Tweed said, that's worse than death.

[bullmoose88]

Sadly, a necessary evil.

Some crimes are only worthy of the death penalty. Life without parole is not an appropriate punishment for some crimes and for some criminals.

That said, I agree with many previous statements regarding the practical application and the problems evident in previous uses of the DP.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

Life in solitary confinement with no chance at parole is "getting off too easily"?  Hell, that's a worse punishment that death.  Death will come eventually, whether the state is in the business of killing people or not.  But I'd certainly rather get the death penalty than be subjected to life in prison.

True, but that costs too much.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

I agree 100%. This country would be a much better place if we started slaughtering twelve year olds. Why don't we just take a nice sharp sword and cut of their heads? Actually, that's too quick and painless. We should torture twelve year olds first, castrate them (if male, if female, we can remove their ovaries while they're still alive and not under any anesthesia), and then take a good old pistol and blow their head off. That'll show 'em not to fcuk with us.

So you're telling me that a 12-yr-old DOESN'T have the mental capacity to know that murder is wrong?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

Wow, is everything ok up there in side your head?

What's wrong w/ my view?  Honestly, a 12-yr-old knows that murder is wrong.  I made exceptions for mentally handicapped people, but said that using the insanity plea can't be applicable for every case.

[Jake]

There's to much crap that surrounds its use nowadays, so I oppose its use for except for a select few.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

Life in solitary confinement with no chance at parole is "getting off too easily"?  Hell, that's a worse punishment that death.  Death will come eventually, whether the state is in the business of killing people or not.  But I'd certainly rather get the death penalty than be subjected to life in prison.

True, but that costs too much.

I'd say its cheaper then endless appeals

[© tweed]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

Life in solitary confinement with no chance at parole is "getting off too easily"?  Hell, that's a worse punishment that death.  Death will come eventually, whether the state is in the business of killing people or not.  But I'd certainly rather get the death penalty than be subjected to life in prison.

True, but that costs too much.

It costs more to execute somebody.  Going off the top of my head, it costs on average $2 million to execute a criminal and $25,000 a year to harbor a criminal.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

Life in solitary confinement with no chance at parole is "getting off too easily"?  Hell, that's a worse punishment that death.  Death will come eventually, whether the state is in the business of killing people or not.  But I'd certainly rather get the death penalty than be subjected to life in prison.

True, but that costs too much.

It costs more to execute somebody.  Going off the top of my head, it costs on average $2 million to execute a criminal and $25,000 a year to harbor a criminal.

That's what I'm saying!!!!

[Boris]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

I agree 100%. This country would be a much better place if we started slaughtering twelve year olds. Why don't we just take a nice sharp sword and cut of their heads? Actually, that's too quick and painless. We should torture twelve year olds first, castrate them (if male, if female, we can remove their ovaries while they're still alive and not under any anesthesia), and then take a good old pistol and blow their head off. That'll show 'em not to fcuk with us.

So you're telling me that a 12-yr-old DOESN'T have the mental capacity to know that murder is wrong?

No, I'm saying that executing 12 year olds is Barbaric, Un-Christian, and most importantly, Un-American.

[adam]

A great program that rids our society of the worst kind of grime.

[Virginian87]

If the death penalty is too costly, we could just put them up in "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison."  Sorry, couldn't resist that line from Office Space.

[HardRCafé]

It costs more to execute somebody.  Going off the top of my head, it costs on average $2 million to execute a criminal and $25,000 a year to harbor a criminal.

An artificial cost, since an injection or a rope can be had for pocket change.

Wow, did not expect this result.

[opebo]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

Um.....

[opebo]

Strongly favor it, by lethal injection or the electric chair, in cases of ... child molestation, and rape (as States outlined). 

Oh really?  So, lets say someone has sex with an 'underaged' person.. and that younger person was an enthusastic participant (of course while still being 'unable' to consent 'legally').   In this case - one with no physical injuries whatever - you would support the death penalty? 

[opebo]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

Um.....

There's no such thing as objective morality, prude.  You just dislike mother-killing, for subjective reasons.  Personally I think it sounds a rather natural developement from the sort of dictatorial power we allow parents.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

Um.....

There's no such thing as objective morality, prude.  You just dislike mother-killing, for subjective reasons.  Personally I think it sounds a rather natural developement from the sort of dictatorial power we allow parents.

Holy Shit are you for real?

[opebo]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

Um.....

There's no such thing as objective morality, prude.  You just dislike mother-killing, for subjective reasons.  Personally I think it sounds a rather natural developement from the sort of dictatorial power we allow parents.

Holy Shit are you for real?

Yes.  Domestic intimacies are naturally the seedbed of murderous passions.

[Virginian87]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

Um.....

There's no such thing as objective morality, prude.  You just dislike mother-killing, for subjective reasons.  Personally I think it sounds a rather natural developement from the sort of dictatorial power we allow parents.

Holy Shit are you for real?

Why do you even bother asking? 

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

Life in solitary confinement with no chance at parole is "getting off too easily"?  Hell, that's a worse punishment that death.  Death will come eventually, whether the state is in the business of killing people or not.  But I'd certainly rather get the death penalty than be subjected to life in prison.

True, but that costs too much.

It costs more to execute somebody.  Going off the top of my head, it costs on average $2 million to execute a criminal and $25,000 a year to harbor a criminal.

How does it cost $2 mill to plug a chair into a wall and turn a switch?  Not to mention that the govt pays all medical bills for those in prison.  So people w/ kidney problems get "free" dialisis on the taxpayers $$$.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Strongly favor it.  Murderes are getting off too easily now adays, with the "sometimes it's best to plead insanity" or "if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit."  Anybody who commits 1st or 2nd degree murder who is net SEVERELY mentally incapacitated should be fried, shot, or injected NO QUESTIONS!  This goes for minors too.  Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

I agree 100%. This country would be a much better place if we started slaughtering twelve year olds. Why don't we just take a nice sharp sword and cut of their heads? Actually, that's too quick and painless. We should torture twelve year olds first, castrate them (if male, if female, we can remove their ovaries while they're still alive and not under any anesthesia), and then take a good old pistol and blow their head off. That'll show 'em not to fcuk with us.

So you're telling me that a 12-yr-old DOESN'T have the mental capacity to know that murder is wrong?

No, I'm saying that executing 12 year olds is Barbaric, Un-Christian, and most importantly, Un-American.

How?  if they shot somebody, they should be killed.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Even a 12-yr-old knows that shooting your mommy in the head is WRONG!

No it isn't.

Um.....

There's no such thing as objective morality, prude.  You just dislike mother-killing, for subjective reasons.  Personally I think it sounds a rather natural developement from the sort of dictatorial power we allow parents.

Holy Shit are you for real?

Yes.  Domestic intimacies are naturally the seedbed of murderous passions.

And I'm the one being asked if everythings OK in my head!

[John Dibble]

Favor in cases of murder, repeat child molestation and in cases of brutal rape.

Pretty much the same, but I would add 'premeditated' for the murder charge, and only used when there can be no doubt of guilt.