Is the Death Penalty Necessary?
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2012/04/24 20:00:00
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California is putting another controversial measure on its ballot this year -- and you can expect to hear a lot more about it as it progresses. Activists collected 500,000 signatures to repeal the death penalty, a measure which would take 723 inmates off of death row and replace their sentence with life in prison. The death penalty is already off the table in 16 other states, and will soon be repealed in Connecticut.
The measure is significant in California because the state holds an enormous percentage of the nation's death row inmates (nearly a quarter, according to Yahoo! News). However, the state has only executed 13 people since 1976, compared to 481 executions in Texas. Activists argue that, regardless of moral issues, the state is spending billions of dollars on a system that rarely goes through with executions. Do you think the death penalty is necessary?
The measure is significant in California because the state holds an enormous percentage of the nation's death row inmates (nearly a quarter, according to Yahoo! News). However, the state has only executed 13 people since 1976, compared to 481 executions in Texas. Activists argue that, regardless of moral issues, the state is spending billions of dollars on a system that rarely goes through with executions. Do you think the death penalty is necessary?
Top Opinion
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RoseyRhod 2012/04/24 20:37:26No
+24I oppose the death penalty not because I feel that someone who acually committed a terrible crime deserves any mercy, but because there are cases in which I think people who were not actually guilty were put to death. Better that we should jail the scum for life than inadvertently put to death one innocent person. However, I don't believe that prisons should be as cushy as they currently are. Inmates should not be allowed to watch television or have porno magazines. They should have access to a library. They should also have to work, and they should be carefully watched at all times. I may disagree with Joe Arpaio on profiling, but I fully agree with him that inmates should not be coddled. If you do the crime, the time served should not be easy.
If the "born again preacher" murdered someone, he should have been put to death. He still would have gone to heaven, so he probably would have been better off. Maybe that's why God chose not to remove him at that time.
Your last paragraph makes little sense. God controls our deaths, not anyone else. When our number is up, it's up, whether as a result of our own self-induced actions, or from someone else.
Ugh.
Though you might be correct in thinking that such pay-per-view programs might indeed make "tons of money," isn't it just a little sick, not to mention amoral? Is that really the direction in which you'd like to see our nation go?
I mean, that's quite draconian, wouldn't you say? The public square of yesteryear didn't prevent crime then & it isn't going to do so now. Threat of the death penalty clearly doesn't stop everyone from committing heinous crimes. Broadcasting the punishment might only serve to make things worse. The way many people think today, it might just make them want to "be a star" & have their very own ten minutes of fame, so to speak.
Regardless, in my opinion, if we're going to keep touting the mantra that we're from "the greatest country in the world," we need to do things that support it, not take away from it. I find such an idea disgusting, of incredibly low moral fiber & simply tasteless.
The message you're spreading is absolutely profound.
You know that we owe China $ 1.16 trillion right?
However, I'm a little bit surprised that someone who is against capital punishment would support it.
However, do keep in mind that the death row inmates are usually kept separate from the general population. Some of the extreme case defendants are as well.
Abortion is murder.
Before you begin calling me names as all "good" Christians react to opposing opinions/beliefs, I am pro-choice BUT anti-abortion. I'm also against killing pregnant dogs, cats, etc., or their offspring.
You the left-wingers just want the doors to all the prisons opened, are you willing to take a large portion of the national debt to build bigger and more secure prsions to hold these murders so someone's else's family will not have to suffer at the hands of some animal who has no regard for human life...... what do you do with those who may love to kill, rape and destroy other peoples lives.