Capital punishment
Posted by: Ratho
4th May 2014 05:22pm
Murders should they be hanged
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Tragk
I'd love to say yes, but I'm kind of on the fence since at the same time the issue goes deeper. Yes, a lot of murders are committed by convicted criminals, but then you've also got first time offenders and most of them are spouses.
Some people certainly deserve capital punishment, but at the same time isn't that too easy a copout? If someone's being punished, death is so quick and instant they don't even have to be remorseful.
KingHabib
No
Bianca31420564
disagreed to hang a murder makes us just as bad
Shambles
I am so 50/50 on this.
Ramsay123
No.
Absolutely not.
Andrea31416172
I think murderers, terrorists and rapists should definitely get capital punishment hands down.
Kassandra31376538
There is no good answer to this question and many innocent people have been put to death in many because it was how it was done. I don't disagree with it completely because putting one person to death to save more being kill or harmed is not a bad thing long but before doing so there should be tighter hoops they go through to make sure they are with no shadow of a doubt that they are guilty. My question would then be if you put to death those people doesn't they make someone else a legal murderer?
Anonymous
It is an interesting question. Although I can definitely see the emotive reasons why people believe in capital punishment, I disagree that it is ever necessary. The goal of our justice system is no longer to punish people for their misdeeds, but to help them, even if they are unwilling, to become a better member of society. Despite our current system being flawed in how it achieves this, I don't think that just instituting capital punishment would fix these issues. Also, would murder be the only charge for which people could be executed? What about manslaughter? Sexual assault? Causing grievous bodily harm? Where should such a line be drawn? It seems to me that the risk of killing someone who was not able to make proper decisions about their own actions due to mental illness, drugs, alcohol or other factors, or even someone who is completely innocent is too high to ever justify such a thing. Although a murderer takes the lives of loved ones, we ought to remember that they have families and loved ones too.
-unique please
Jojo1
As long as the person concerned did the crime it is too late if he is innocent.
barbiedoll99
I do not be3leive in Capital; Punishment, because on very rare occasions, the person on Death Row in America is found innocent after years of being interned waiting to be killed.
As far as I am concerned, it is LEGAL MURDER and I think that humanity has come further than doing that.
CaityJ
I don't think so. I think they should be rehabilitated and treated for whatever mental health problems or emotional issues they might have that drove them to killing in the first place, and there should be some punishment, but rehabilitation is a far better solution than capital punishment and greatly reduces the risk of the murderer killing again.
chickenman
i believe in Capital punishment for some crimes, but not as a mandatory sentence.
it has to based on the severity of the crime and the likelihood of a re-offence.
sophiew011
No, murderers shouldn't be hanged. They shouldn't be given any form of death penalty. If you give them the death penalty, you're just allowing them to get off easily for what they've done. They should have to wait their time out and have to think about what they've done.
phoenix
well here's a topic i can have a good response to, on one hand yes of course they should be. BUT on the other hand, if a person is convicted of such a crime, hung and dead, only to be found not the one whom did the crime what then ?
Anonymous
No they shouldnt.
We should look at where this development begins to offend and do a "crime".
IMO the development of a child is very important. Their brain is like a sponge to water. The old saying u become like the people u live with has some merit to it.
The kids these days r being bombarded with so much rubbish it is not funny.
If early detection is made the child will be able to be helped and the community would not suffer.
Bottom line lazy governments has the answers but what do u expect from lazy governments and beauracrats. Great for finger pointing thats all.
Have a nice day.
This is not a reply to Ratho just put in my two cents worth.
Burnt Out Digger
I don't agree with capital punishment except for the most dire of crimes. However, if one of my family members was murdered my attitude would, most likely, change.
jen1
something a little more humane than hanging.
kit
Like many I am all for capital punishment - whatever the humane means may be - and not just for murder but for extreme crimes against humanity.......BUT the perpetrator must be absolutely guilty, no exceptions, without any chance for mistaken identity or false information. Since DNA came to the fore, I am also very FOR any person/s being sent to prison, or convicted of a major crimes, even if not imprisoned, must have their DNA, eye scan, and finger/hand/foot prints taken and kept on file for life. This has already proved a deterrent in some countries/states. Additionally, prisoners on remand, parole or classed as no risk, should be implanted with a subcutaneous tracking device as the ankle unit are a joke. It would not bother me if I was in this position, which I hopefully never will be! If people choose a life of crime, then they should be penalised, and their whereabouts known at all times....even if only the term of their sentences.
PukPuk
Prefer the Life Sentence. That way they get to endure deprivation of privacy and have a long time to consider what their actions have done to not just others but also to robbing themselves of their one and only lifetime to experience.
Freedomy
Never should anyone play the god card and make that decision for another person. A murder should be made to pay a lesson. Yes they are a burden on society, yes they are costly in the prison system, but man when you have so much time up your sleeve to think about it, be sure you have no choice but to face it, once the cell door is shut. And you might share a cell with the big ugly guy called Cherry who likes your but.
Who are you or I to say you killed so you should be killed. An eye for an eye, is that a lesson or just getting even.
Anonymous
This is a very hard situation but at the end of the day I don't believe that a murder should be a consequence for a murder. More killing doesn't solve issues.
Anonymous
Some criminals repeat the crimes if they know they don't get capital punishment
CathyK
No, I think that is an out for them, we should go back to the days when prison was hard time and it was a deterrent to crime
Anonymous
No
Anonymous
They should...
lesley
Hi i am not sure about Hanging but they should be made have what they done to the person that they killed done to them over time so they suffer as family's have to after they have lost a family member or friend as i did i lost a daughter to a thing that is not worth calling a HUMAN and the things that he did to her would shock some people but every day i wake and live this and he is sitting in JAIL eatind and watching TV on the money that i pay in taxe's so if you can tell me that this is what it should be then please do so
Ally
I agree with you lesley......Hanging is a quick and easy out for these offenders - paedophiles, murderers and rapists. Most of these re-offend, thanks to the Parole Board, would be do-gooders who have no idea what families go through when they lose someone.....the heartache never ceases. What of the offender? He/she is living and still enjoying life thanks to us taxpayers and the 'critically soft judicial system' . Do unto then what they have done to their victims, so they are not given another chance to repeat their heinous crimes.........a rap over the knuckles is a joke together with life in prison...........no deterrent at all.
Anonymous
No I dont think they should, why should they get off that easy. In saying that I think protective custody should be stopped, in with all the other prisoners im sure they'd get they're justice.
Anonymous
If murders killed people but they are still live, it is unfair for the families and people who lost their families members.
Anonymous
It's never as simple as answering yes or no there's many factors you need to consider when looking into a murder. Why did they commit the crime? do they have mental issues? what's there family history? was others involved? being the killer and being involved in the murder can be just as bad. No one deserves to be killed I believe and if your reply to that is well why shouldn't they? killing them makes you just as bad as them, you see the cycle just keeps going and going it's not solving anything for anyone. Let them rot away in prison and make them live a horrible life, killing them is simply putting them out of there misery.
dollymay
they don't rot in prison now days, they live in luxury, there cell are like a 5 star motel, i new some one once who was in jail, he told me what it was like, no wonder they keep reoffending to get back to there motel, the tax payer has to pay to keep them in there good way of living, that's not a punishment, the only thing they don't
have is there freedom,
Anonymous
How does executing a murderer make us as bad as them? They have taken the life of an innocent person, their execution is an appropriate punishment for that crime.
lesley
I would like to ask you that if that boy in the USA that opened fire and killed his flat mates then them people he did not know when he has been seeing a sic Dr for most of his life yet he was still not stoped from buying guns so why not let the family's have him for a day then see what is left of him after
Alyssa
Wow, what a question! After much thought I will have to say I think no, I don't think that the death of the murderer will serve any purpose, either for the murderer or the victims family. It may temporarily satisfy the desire for revenge but it will not bring healing to either the victims family or the murderer. I believe there needs to be consequences because murder is wrong, I do not know a suitable alternative that would constitute the right balance between justice and mercy but I believe that every life is precious, even that of a murderer. I also know that I have never had anyone close to me murdered and that I am coming to this from an academic and values perspective rather than an experiential one
Burnt Out Digger
If it was a member of my family or a close friend who was killed I would, most likely, be a strong supporter in that case, but otherwise I am opposed to it, especially if a member of my family or a close friend was accused. Also, if an innocent person was executed it would be a tragic miscarriage of justice. It should also been borne in mind if an innocent party is put to death they cannot be brought back to life.
GodzGirl04
Bring back capital punishment I say! There are murderers, rapists, and peodofiles who cannot be rehabilitated and nor do they want to. It's those that should be dealt with in this way in my opinion. It saves repeat offenses, and society living in fear of them being on the loose again. It may even save tax payers money...
Ratho
Hi Alyssa, Thanks for your thoughts, made a lot of sense, however if murderers were hanged the first time around then there would be 20 more people still alive in this country! A lot of these people repeat offend, I am sorry to say. Thankyou.
Ratho
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