No one deserves an execution, jail however is a solution...but it is merely hiding a problem.
Not even if they murdered twenty people, tortured countless others, and raped innocent children?
Of course, execution alone isn't enough punishment; death is more of an escape to alot of criminals. I would say, give them what they gave to others. Not torture, but what they did to others.
thats not what I meant Norsefire
I meant that the ultimate goal is to change their mind in the process and live normally and peacifully as we all do
anyone...families or not
No one deserves an execution, jail however is a solution...but it is merely hiding a problem.
Kadark said:
What the hell has jail ever solved?
JUDGE 1: It seems to me, if we brought back capital punishment, there wouldn't be any murders.
JUDGE 2: Oh, I quite agree ... just look at America.
J1: Yes. Or do they still have murders?
J2: Well, the odd one or two. But that's because they're too soft!
J1: Oh, that's right. They should cut off their heads in public, like they do in Saudi Arabia!
J2: Yes, yes, yes. Who do they do that to, then?
J1: Well, the murderers.
J2: They still have them, then?
J1: Well, yes, yes. But that's because they're too soft. They ought to be hung, drawn, and quartered like they were in the old days.
J2: Yes, yes. Yes. Who exactly did they hang, draw, and quarter, then?
J1: Well, the uh ... yes, the murderers, alright. But that's because they were too soft, you see? Some of those hanging, drawing, and quartering places were like bloody holiday camps! They used to have televisions, you know ....
It took 31 years, but the moral bankruptcy, social imbalance, legal impracticality and ultimate futility of the death penalty has finally penetrated the consciences of lawmakers in one of the 37 states that arrogates to itself the right to execute human beings.
This week, the New Jersey Assembly and Senate passed a law abolishing the death penalty, and Gov. Jon Corzine, a staunch opponent of execution, promised to sign the measure very soon. That will make New Jersey the first state to strike the death penalty from its books since the Supreme Court set guidelines for the nation’s system of capital punishment three decades ago.
Some lawmakers voted out of principled opposition to the death penalty. Others felt that having the law on the books without enforcing it (New Jersey has had a moratorium on executions since 2006) made a mockery of their argument that it has deterrent value. Whatever the motivation of individual legislators, by forsaking a barbaric practice that grievously hurts the global reputation of the United States without advancing public safety, New Jersey has set a worthy example for the federal government, and for other states that have yet to abandon the creaky, error-prone machinery of death.
New Jersey’s decision to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole seems all the wiser coming in the middle of a month that has already seen the convictions of two people formerly on death row in other states repudiated. In one case, the defendant was found not guilty following a new trial ....
(Board Editorial)
What the hell has jail ever solved?
Kadark said:
Jails are one of the worst "solutions" to stopping crime ever imagined. It rarely solves anything, as the increasing crime rate would bluntly indicate. Slashing a man's freedom of a large percentage of his life over a crime that never deliberately hurt others (stealing, drugs, etc.) is barbaric, and yet doesn't work all at the same time.
...it kills innocent people. ....
I think with the advent of DNA as evidence, those days are hopefully behind us.