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SomeGirlOnTheNet
Writer's Block
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 21 | July 1st, 2008 at 11:28am You know how much we pay in tax dollars each year in order to provide security, food, clothing, cable, medical care (Including dental) and rehabilitation to our prisoners? About $60,000,000,000 per year. Including inflation, I'm sure that number is much higher when comparing to 10 or 20 years ago.
Due to the fact that we have the fastest increasing incarceration rate in the world, the overflowing of prisons has made officials turn to just letting murderers out early.
I don't think we should have to pay $43,000 per year to house a killer, nice and cozy. Nor do I think we should just let 'em go when we don't have room. I believe that the death sentence is necessary and that we shouldn't abolish it.
If I saw any reason to trust in rehabilitation, I might think differently. But, there isn't enough proof to back it up, and too much of a risk involved in letting them go.
The situations do vary, and I don't think that every murder case has to be treated the same. But nonetheless, that is my opinion. |
RENT.
Wordsmith
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Posts: 12015 | July 1st, 2008 at 01:07pm
I think it's extreme hypocricy.
I'm glad Australia has abolished it.
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Venomous.Vampire
Writer's Block
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 68 | July 2nd, 2008 at 09:24pm we kill people for killing people.
we say murder is a crime and then we murder people.
how can we justify that?
it's just extreme hippocricy. |
Torden
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 1308 | July 3rd, 2008 at 05:58pm If we killed a murderer, doesn't that make us murderers, too?
Even if the person doesn't feel pain it's still wrong.
So, we're killing someone who has murdered, to show that it's wrong?
Jeez. Life in jail is the most they deserve.
Death Row? How awful must it be to know that you're not living life and knowing tomorrow could be the day you died? |
Torden
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 1308 | July 3rd, 2008 at 06:09pm Deleted and lost:Yes they are! If a guy rapes and tortures 3 innocent little 8 year old girls and then kills them, And then guy admits it too he should die!
It won't bring the girls back.
It's not right.  |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3417 | July 3rd, 2008 at 07:58pm Venomous.Vampire:we kill people for killing people.
we say murder is a crime and then we murder people.
how can we justify that?
it's just extreme hippocricy.
Murder is the wrongful, unlawful killing of someone. The death penalty isn't unlawful so it's not murder as long as it's legal.
If someone locked someone up in a cell with bars on one side and took away their freedoms, we would consider that a crime. Imprisonment is wrong, but when done as a punishment by law it's not, it's punishment. When we punish someone, we're always doing something that you don't have the right to do to someone else. I don't support the death penalty but not for that reason. |
Briton
Grammar Guru
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 3732 | July 4th, 2008 at 12:59am ^ That's a really good point, Kurtni. But, may I ask what your reasons are for disagreeing with the death penalty? |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3417 | July 4th, 2008 at 01:02am Leonore Paisley:^ That's a really good point, Kurtni. But, may I ask what your reasons are for disagreeing with the death penalty? I don't think anyone should be given the authority to kill someone else.  It's a scary concept, I think. The thought of someones right to life resting in the hands of a jury bothers me. I honestly think some crimes are heinous enough to where death is a justified punishment, I just don't think anyone should be in the position to have that kind of power over another person. |
NinjaJediPirate
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 134 | July 4th, 2008 at 03:09am It is true that if we kill a murderer we are murderers too. But the death penalty is the best deterrant for crime. If we punish the criminals to that much of an extreme it's unlikely anyone else will attempt that crime.
The death penalty would make things a lot safer because people would be too scared to try and do anything wrong.
But I don't agree with it. Ruling a country by fear is wrong. And with that much authority in the governments hands its easy for them to take advantage of it.
But I do think that we need a new form of punishment for criminals. If we send them to jails where our money is paying for their food, their beds, their recreational activities, then they won't be too worried about breaking the law. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3417 | July 4th, 2008 at 03:39am PokeyyProds:It is true that if we kill a murderer we are murderers too. . Murder is an illegal act defined by law. The Death penalty isn't defined as illegal by law. |
kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3011 | July 4th, 2008 at 09:24am Kurtni Monroe:PokeyyProds:It is true that if we kill a murderer we are murderers too. . Murder is an illegal act defined by law. The Death penalty isn't defined as illegal by law. Also soldiers kill people too. And we threat them like heroes - we should at least - not like murderers.
You can't generalize and say that taking a human life is immoral and wrong in all situations. |
NinjaJediPirate
Amateur Author
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 134 | July 4th, 2008 at 09:59am But if you think about it, who has the right to say when its right to take a human life?
Just because our soldiers are doing it doesn't make it right.
Sure, killing for the right reasons is good. But who's to say if its the right reason? |
kafka.
Fanfic Fanatic
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3011 | July 4th, 2008 at 03:14pm PokeyyProds:But if you think about it, who has the right to say when its right to take a human life?
Just because our soldiers are doing it doesn't make it right.
Sure, killing for the right reasons is good. But who's to say if its the right reason? I suppose Allies soldiers should've just asked the Germans to be nice guys and surrender because who are they to say if this right or wrong to take a human life? They were just trying to save the world from dictatorship.
We have courts and judges and juries and we have constitutions and laws. A single man doesn't make the call, we all do as a society. We all say ''hey murdering infants is wrong and it should be punished''. Now you might believe that that's not a ''right'' reason and then I suggest finding an other society. |
Briton
Grammar Guru
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 3732 | July 6th, 2008 at 01:25am Kurtni Monroe:Leonore Paisley:^ That's a really good point, Kurtni. But, may I ask what your reasons are for disagreeing with the death penalty? I don't think anyone should be given the authority to kill someone else. It's a scary concept, I think. The thought of someones right to life resting in the hands of a jury bothers me. I honestly think some crimes are heinous enough to where death is a justified punishment, I just don't think anyone should be in the position to have that kind of power over another person.
I actually completely agree. I don't like to think that someone has a 'right' to kill someone. Government, soldiers, anyone. I'm one that strongly believes that violence is not the answer, even if violence isn't exactly what killed the original murderer. |
TheRandomJohnny
Writer's Block
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Posts: 6 | July 14th, 2008 at 02:39am I say yes. The death Penalty is useful.
If I am on a trip and comeback to find my family murdered. I would like to know that the person they caught is going to be killed, and not left in jail where he can stay and never worry about another meal.
I mean really. |
The Brightside.
SPACEMAN
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 18639 | July 14th, 2008 at 12:58pm TheRandomJohnny:I say yes. The death Penalty is useful.
If I am on a trip and comeback to find my family murdered. I would like to know that the person they caught is going to be killed, and not left in jail where he can stay and never worry about another meal.
I mean really.
What makes you any better than the murderer for wanting somebody dead? What gives the government the right to kill that person?
The death penalty doesn't bring total justice. It won't bring your family back.
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Missing Wings.
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 488 | July 15th, 2008 at 10:33pm I don't agree with the death penalty at all. Especially for murder because killing someone for killing someone makes you no better then them.
If you think about it most people who do things so horrible that they deserve the death penalty are usually insane or mentally ill in some way therefore you are just putting them out of there misery.
I say let them suffer in prison for the rest of their lives. |
Billy Corgan
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 86
Gender: Female
Posts: 378 | July 16th, 2008 at 03:52pm I believe in it, especially since I believe in getting what you give. |
Kurtni O'Hara
Database Error
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3417 | July 16th, 2008 at 04:14pm A lot of people arguing against the death penalty have only touched on it being used for murders.
On a global scale, crimes against humanity are also punishable with death. How do you feel about that? |
Billy Corgan
Cliché Catastrophe
Age: 86
Gender: Female
Posts: 378 | July 16th, 2008 at 04:22pm I think the death penalty should be used for a lot of different crimes.
Rape of a minor?
Death. |
