What are your feelings/thought towards the death penalty?

I personally do not agree with this law. What good does it do to kill someone as an act of punishment. Then is it really a punishment? How will they learn from their mistakes if they are dead. I think if someone where ever to commit a crime towards me or to my family, I would not wish them dead. My only wish would be for this person to someday be able to forgive them selfs and be forgiven.

Is the death penalty allowed in your state?

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i don't beleive in the death penalty........ i don't think killing sumone for a crime does anybody any good......i don't see it as punishment i see it as revenge and well revenge too me is not good

I've never agreed with the death penalty. I remember being in 4th grade and I was the only one in the whole room that didn't agree with the death penalty. That teacher had fun lecturing me about it. There are criminals that have committed heinous crimes and I believe they should be punished. I just don't think death is an acceptable punishment. Would I change my view on the death penalty if someone I cared about was brutally murdered, etc? I don't believe so, but I've never had to make that decision.

sorry to disapoint but i have known many ppl who have died by anothers hand......N if u would have asked me when i was younger i would have said yes i beleive in the death penalty but now that i'm older NO i don't beleive in the death penalty.....i sinned many a time when i was younger n well i would not want anyone to judge me n punish me for my actions....trust me i'm sure many have wished my death, so enough said i have changed and am sorry for my actions in my past...n hope god n anyone i ever hurt can forgive me for my past actions....

what if it was ur sibling who was receiving the death penalty then what?

Pep wrote:Yea, until it's your sibling that is killed, then I am sure that I would want justice. [knock on wood] I could not stand the thought, that a man who killed someone close to me is now being well cared for by my tax dollars....and please dont let that man out of jail because that's when street justice looks appealing..."eye for an eye"

On the other hand, the courts are racially biased. Far more minorities get convicted for the same crimes that whites are not-that is not fair and a good argument for abolishing capital punichment....

Hmm, you think people in prison are well cared for? I totally agree with you on the justice part, but wouldn't you think rotting in jail is enough justice?

MuchoMuyKrazy wrote:sorry to disapoint but i have known many ppl who have died by anothers hand......N if u would have asked me when i was younger i would have said yes i beleive in the death penalty but now that i'm older NO i don't beleive in the death penalty.....i sinned many a time when i was younger n well i would not want anyone to judge me n punish me for my actions....trust me i'm sure many have wished my death, so enough said i have changed and am sorry for my actions in my past...n hope god n anyone i ever hurt can forgive me for my past actions....

what if it was ur sibling who was receiving the death penalty then what?

:Clap: So true. If the death penalty was a lessoned learned then we would all be dead...but what can one learn when they have no life to learn from. I also believe that only God can judge us,

Pep wrote:I would everything in my power to get him off, then trust in God.

sorry, but how can u support the death penalty then say if it was ur sibling you would get him off.... what about the victims family didn't u say u would want that if they killed ur sibling, well then shouldn't their family get the same thing u'd want?

Pep wrote:Oh, I am not even pretending to be logical and fair. Blood is thicker than water and I cannot worry about other peoples problems...but if someone im my family received a death sentence, it would be devastating...I would want to get it over turned, but in the end you can only feel two things; that justice was served and that God is the ultimate judge....IMO

Yes, God is the ultimate judge...life is so unfair!! Why should a group of people decide what will happen to our loved ones that have or are in jail.

Pep wrote:Oh, I am not even pretending to be logical and fair. Blood is thicker than water and I cannot worry about other peoples problems...but if someone im my family received a death sentence, it would be devastating...I would want to get it over turned, but in the end you can only feel two things; that justice was served and that God is the ultimate judge....IMO

i totally understand what u r sayin...the only thing is i'm more of a person whom beleives ppl should be treated equal n if u want something for someone else than the same things should apply to urself..cause u never know if someday u shall be in the same situation..IMO

Pep wrote:Because it makes society work, otherwise, we will have the strong preying on the weak without impunity...like the old west...it was dominated buy the fastest guns, everone else was pushed around and death was easy to find....

good point....

I've never agreed with the death penalty either. I guess I just believe that karma will be the ultimate pay back and God should be the one to make the judgement.

Besides, there are cases where people are falsely accused and convicted of crimes they didn't even do. I mean that's totally unfair for that person should they truly be innocent of the crime for which they were punished.

And if the person did actually deserve to be convicted of the crime, then I feel that the sheer torture of having to live in the society of the prison system is punishment enough. It's definitely no vacation away from home.

Well, I suppose I am for the death penality. I knew this one kid who was raped and murded by a man. Personally, I think people like that should burn in hell. I mean, if someone raped and cold bloodly murdered my sister, i just couldnt find it in my heart to forgive. I would want that person to die so they can burn in hell and suffer for all eternity.

I think wether we disagree or agree with the death penality, it is here to stay. The death penality has been practied for centuries, or we take the matter of killing and revenge on our own hands regardless. What we need to do to is change our laws(like give more time to sex offenders). Organize our local bueracracies and social institutions so we can better our communites, thus, minimizing crime.

Normies wrote:I think wether we disagree or agree with the death penality, it is here to stay. The death penality has been practied for centuries, or we take the matter of killing and revenge on our own hands regardless. What we need to do to is change our laws(like give more time to Å ex offenders). Organize our local bueracracies and social institutions so we can better our communites, thus, minimizing crime.

I wonder if we could ever really get rid of crime! :(

Normies wrote:What we need to do to is change our laws(like give more time to Å ex offenders). Organize our local bueracracies and social institutions so we can better our communites, thus, minimizing crime.

I definately agree with you on that.

siLLy wrote:I wonder if we could ever really get rid of crime! :(

I think that there always has to be something negative to counteract the positives in life, so no I don't think we'll ever get rid of crime.