Death Penalty for Under 18?Follow

Sure now we say no death for anyone under 16 but soon that becomes 14 then 12 then 9 then 6.

I always like to refer to the ****** rope theory. Its a long rope covered with ****, that harder you try to squeez and bare your wounds, the faster you fall.

I think i heard that on some dumbass redneck canadian TV show.


Edited, Thu Oct 14 01:05:58 2004 by SmashingJroc

I thought the reason gay marraige was bad is because people will start marrying their sister's goat or something.

ok.... this discussion bounced from left to right, even bringing abortion and religion in wtf has that to do with the morality of the death penalty?

Why not, social pov:
Makes organised crime "all or nothing", if you killed someone youre dead anyway so what it doesnt mean a difference if you kill 1 person or 500. That's why so many cops get shot in your country.

form 1973 to now 116 innocents on death row were exonerated leaves you guessing how many were killed in that period that never got exonertaed cause they were dead anyway. And if youre opinion is that the frying an innocent on occasion isnt bad you must get your head examined.

already said in this thead, It's more expensive.

why not, moral pov:

You kill people to show your society that killing people is wrong, that's just medieval, just chop hands off people that steal too!

It's the easy way out,ask the avarage prisoner on death row what's worse, sitting for deathrow for 10 years or sitting in prison till the day you die, most will choose the first option. So if you want revenge, life is better.

Death penalty discriminates,
there is a overwhelming body of evidence that race plays a decisive role in the question of who lives and dies by execution.
see: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=45&did=539


K those poeple who are pro name thier reasons please, because i cannot think of one.

The 16 year yes/no discussion is not really a discussion cause if you vote yes and you are consequent than everybody who commits a death penalty crime should get the death penalty, including 1 year olds, retards(down syndrom), the insane. Ow wait you give em deathpenaltys too! Well the states that do should make thier own laws as they are intiteld to but just dont call em civilised.


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and what happened to google? The site ( http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ ) has good ubiased info based on numbers, cases and official reports.
That site renders discussion useless.

and im not a native english speaker so give my spelling some slack.

Edited, Fri Oct 15 11:13:10 2004 by Sjans

At the ages in question, you better have enough reason to know right from wrong and if not that, at least understand the concept of law and consequence. I am completely for the death penalty for these ages.

You have to remember a couple thing: the death sentence is not handed out like candy. The death penalty is reserved for the worst and most dangerous of the murderers. The unremorseful, the repeat offenders. For the most part you at least have to have planned the murder.

You will never see a teenager, or anyone, put to death for a murder you could define as a "crime of passion" or a spontaneous crime.

Its an unfortunate situation to say the least, but the jury was presented with enough evidence to come to the conclusion that he will be continually dangerous to society. You can't hold the court system accountable for some lying sacks of $hit who are guilty of lying under oath. As long as we wish to keep the freedoms we are given, we have to accept that people will exploit those freedoms for personal gain.

Of course we can hold the court system accountable, they're the ones that offered the lying sacks of **** the incentive to lie (ie: a sentence other than the death penalty). Who else are we supposed to hold accountable? The Liars? Jeez, what would you do if you were offered the choice between lying under oath or going to the chair?



Edited, Sun Oct 17 01:54:57 2004 by Deathwysh

You sure you don't mean Pesos?

How about if we have convicted killers pull the switch? Would that make you feel better?

So... You're not sure whether or not you actually meant Pesos?

Interesting.

First you say cents, then you say you're not sure if it's pesos, then you say you're sure it's not pesos..

Flip-flop-flip-flop..

Sheesh.