trucker
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NO
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Pinhead
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Yes I do, why should the British public have to pay taxes to keep them locked up, another idea is "Life means life" with the option of voluntary execution.
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ambi
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It is impossible to condone a murder for someone who murders. Do we shoot someone who shot, stab someone who stabbed, poison those who poison. Where would it end. Long answer for NO
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Easy
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Yes. For murder rape and paedophiles because they are prone to offending again.It will also save the state and the tax payer £37500 per year per convict
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greckel
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use our names & as much infomation as you can get from or profile...yes( but not for nonviolent crimes)
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compo1
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for murder first degree yes for crimes of passion no murder proved beyond all dought same as huntley and yorkshire ripper sutcliff hang them high
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Loli M
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Yes for capitol crimes I agree with capitol punishement. I think the system needs to make some huge changes though...
1. Trial
2. Sentence
3. 6 months to appeal ONE TIME and get affairs in order
4. Put to death one year after sentence
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louise
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NO, capital punishment is sick, its possible to accuse someone of something they havent done, those people do not deserve to die! on the other hand those of do commit serious crimes should rot in jail then hell.
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trixa
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Yes. For murder and child abuse
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Stephen L
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Yes, but only when they sort out an effective system for reprieves ... Or maybe they should combine the juduciary and the executive ...
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Nic
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No.
the second you let people judge others, there is a chance that a mistake may be made.
Do you take the risk to kill someone on a mistake?
I don't.
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Cristy
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As long as someone is aware of the possibility of 'the death penalty' before their crime is commited, I'm for it.
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ThePerfectStranger
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Yes. There seems to be the reasoning that too many innocent people are currently on death row. If you ask the accused, they are all innocent. Innocent people on death row is very rare. Granted, the judicial system still needs work. Maybe a few lawyers on death row would help. Let's face it, there are some bad people in jail for committing some very bad crimes. By saving their lives, you are saying the victims lives are not worth anything. Death on a consistent basis will not stop crimes, even bad crimes, but it will reduce some. Saving one life is worth it.
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delphi13
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No, If I believe it is wrong to kill people then it follows that I must believe that I don't have the right to kill people in revenge.
How can we ever legalise killing, it puts the people that agree with it in the same category as the perpetrators of the crimes albiet at a different level.
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yes
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BARNEY B
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YES!! So long as there is absolutely NO doubt
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Dry Dreamer
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YES
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As a Retired Law Enforcement Officer I have to say NO, I am not in favor of the death penalty because of the way that it's carried out. It's become a farce and a farce can hardly serve as a deterrant.
As it now stands, someone convicted of a capital offense, who uses the appeals process (In other words, doesn't have a death wish) can drag the execution of sentence out for decades. Take Abu Mumia Jamal for example. That piece of filth should have been executed 20 years ago instead of sitting in a cell preaching about how his crime was everyone else's responsibility and not his.
When an execution finally takes place the prosoner is treated like you'd treat a favored pet with a terminal disease. I think that, if you want the death penalty to be a deterrant, you need to make it public and you need to make it painful or what purpose does it serve?
I say we go to natural life sentences at hard labor. Use the methods developed by Sheriff Joe Araipo in Maricopa County and make them pay for their own room and board by working. They don't need exercise rooms and they don't need air conditioning. They don't need cable TV and they don't need expensive meals.
Everyone thinks of Attica State Penitentiary in New York State when prisons are mentioned but Attica is by far, not the place I would have in mind for murders. I would prefer to see them in the DeWitt Clinton Correctional Facility. Clinton Prison is in the Adirondak Mountains in New York, not to far from Fort Drum. It started life as an IRON MINE and the prisoners who are incarcerated there call it GLADIATOR SCHOOL. Now they manufacture furniture for state office buildings. That would be more to my liking.
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kenny J
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Nope. It doesn't work. If it was so viable, why all the murder? Instead life in prison no parole, no exceptions. Make the bastards serve their time with no perks. No TV, no weights, no smokes.
Besides look at all the countries that use the death penalty, China, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and other ************ countries. Great company we keep.
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Sara
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It depends on the crime, if you are a proved Paedophile/Serial Killer (as in current news - UK) or a Rapist then i agree that the death penalty does apply, these people are scum and do not deserve to use tax payers money for them to live the rest of their life in their 'secure/vulnerable prisioners unit'. Kill them and do us all a favour. The emotional didnt know what i was doing thing - its a get out for a lame sentance.
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Punkie'sDad
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I feel the only thing wrong with the death penalty is that it is not used often or quickly enough and it is done too humanely. Funny I should have this opinion, because I consider myself extremely liberal/left-wing. But when it comes to people who have commited serious crimes, I have no mercy for them whatsoever. If found guilty, they should be given a set length of time (ex. 1 year) in which to make their appeals. Court dockets could be rearranged to ensure they get at least one appeal during this time. If at the end of that time, their conviction stands, string 'em up. And I mean that literally. Too many people (I'm talking to you, ACLU people) are worried about "Cruel and unusual punishment" or if they feel pain while being put to death. Keep in mind that these inmates are the same people who have raped/murdered/hurt children and other innocents. I really HOPE they feel pain while being put to death. Instead of paying outrageous fees to lethally inject or electrocute someone each and every time, buy one good sturdy rope for $10-$15 at the local Home Depot and use it over and over. Tax savings right there.
As it is right now, teh death penalty is no deterrent to crime because there are too many ways around it and you can drag the appeals process out indefinitely. Let the criminal element know that they WILL die within the year if convicted and that more than likely they'll feel it for a few minutes before finally drawing their last breath and see if that works any better.
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Richard R
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Yep....Off with their heads!!
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wickedmind
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Yes I'm for it. Something needs to turn this lawless country around.
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♫ ∫aoli
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YES! YES YES YES!
(Why are they taking so long with Saddam Hussein...)
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Young and Wise
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No as much as I would love to kill murderer and rapist and people who hurt and kill children it's not my place to play God and they will all have to stand before him on judgment day
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hellraiza15
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yep, screw human rights what does the rights of the victims mean to the justice system mean. kill the kiddy fiddlers n murderers
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yupchagee
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Yes. REALLY cuts recidivism.
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Donna M
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In theory, yes, in practice no.
Too many innocent people sitting on death row.
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Lab Runner
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Yes but only if there is no question that they had committed the crime thing like DNA evidence....i sick of hearing about people who spent 20 years in jail just to be let out later cuz DNA proved they didn't do it
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ZappBranagan
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yes i believe in if you take a life with intent, you inadvertently forfeit your own....a life for a life....
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Shadow_Dancer
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Yes!!! I also believe that after they have had a chance to appeal and the sentence has not been revoked, they should be removed from the court and executed immediately, no sitting around on death row for years costing the tax payers money to feed and cloth them.
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