A random thought about the death penalty...
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Thread Topic: A random thought about the death penalty...
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I don't think it should be illegal. Why?
Well, if people like...let's say Albert Fish think they have the right to rob people of their lives, killing them in a horrible, torturous way, why should they think that they have the right to continue living as well? -
I kinda agree with you. Some really horrible people just deserve to be taken out of this world xP
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tongue AdvancedI agree, but I still think it's used too much on people who don't deserve it. Last year in Alabama, the state executed a guy who was mentally retarded. Oh, and he was black. It's imporatant to note that. Alot of times black inmates get the death penalty while a white inmate who commited the same crime gets life in prison.
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If they're insane, I don't know...if the murderer or whatever was so insane that he didn't understand that murder is wrong, I guess it might not make sense to kill them...
Albert Fish was insane, but he was sane enough to understand that murder is wrong, which is why I think it was right for him to be killed.
And I don't agree with racism, especially when it's the death penalty. -
Either way I'm still against the death pentalty.
it's Hipocrisy on the governments part AND
it would SUCK even more to have life in prison :P -
If I was Grace Budd's (Albert Fish killed Grace Budd when she was 10 years old and ate her, and then sent a letter to her mother describing what he had done) mother...or any other victim of Albert Fish or anybody else, I would prefer to know that the killer of my daughter was dead.
I've seen people say that it's hipocrisy, because the government is killing people, even though it's against the law.
Again, I'll use Albert Fish as an example. xD
Torturing an innocent 6-year-old boy to death, eating him, and then sending a disgusting, horrendous letter to the boy's mother, describing how he had killed her son (Yes, Albert Fish did the ssame thing with Grace Budd), is extremely different from the government killing Albert Fish by electric chair after he had tortured, murdered, and eaten numerous children. -
tongue AdvancedYes, Albert Fish was a nutcase. Yes, he deserved to die. But not every person who gets the death penalty did the kind of things Albert Fish did. Very few people do.
Though I do have to say that I'm very impressed that Nakita knows so much about Albert Fish. He's not a very commonly know serial killer the way Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are. -
The only thing I don't like is that it gives more power to the government (as Ting mentioned) and they do infact often kill the wrong people >.< Which is annoying and sucks.
And I know this is more of a religious thing, but I think the sooner they get to Hell the better. :P -
I know that, in several cases, the person being executed possibly wasn't deserving/was the wrong person, and it does suck.
I guess this might sound cold, but I would rather make sure that those who do deserve to be executed be executed and risk executing non-deserving people than have the death penalty become illegal. -
tongue AdvancedI'd rather have the death penalty be illegal than have it be used on people it shouldn't be used on. The real b------s will get life in prison, and that's good enough.
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Life in prison is quite possibly worse. I think, anyway. Except then you risk them possibly escaping... On very very rare occasions.
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what tongue said.
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