Here's why I favor a death sentence

mrstime said:
I only favor the DP for child molesters, because they never seem to get cured! for all others I believe life without the chance of parole is real punishment!
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That might be fine "IF and that's a big IF", it meant life... forever. But, as you see from my original post, life without parole didn't really mean life without parole.
 

squatting dog said:
I'd like to know more about his story. Can't form an opinion without all the facts.
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Let's just use you as an example...

You're outside working on your car and a little kid is snatched and killed that day. You didn't do it but you were outside and they have no other witnesses saying different.

You spend 20 years in prison for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Finally somehow there's a DNA test that proves your innocence and you could get out and be free.

However, if they changed the death row wait to 10 yrs and you get executed only for your family to find out 10 more years later you were killed for nothing....

Would you be ok with that? Not being snarky just an honest question. Because over the years they have discovered that some people spent years in prison that were innocent.
 
In general people complain about the death penalty, they complain about taxes to pay for prisons, they complain about places that try to rehab these folks to get them back into society as a productive member instead of a killer. We can't have it all ways.

And regardless of what they do, another murderer in the making is probably born each day. It won't end just because they do this or do that was the point I was trying to make.

I too don't think they should go unpunished. But I also don't think killing them makes us any better than them. It makes us the same in my eyes.

I could never vote for someone to be put to death. I just don't have that kind of hatred or evil or whatever you want to call it in me.

I think people who kill others have mental issues that stem from early life that never get dealt with. But if God can give someone who genuinely repents a second chance then we should at least consider it.

Mainly because none of us are perfect.
 
I'll bet just about everbody that has been wrongfully convicted in America couldn't afford expert legal representation.

The justice system is broken. If you don't have a lot of money to spend on your defense, the outcome is always worse for you :(

Right, wrong, or fairness plays a much smaller role in justice than having an expensive defense attorney.
 

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