An eye for an eye, A tooth for a tooth.

It works out if we could be fair to each other. I don't believe in capital punishment, I think those people should just be put in jail for life.

Yes I do. If a person murders another person, then why should that person live. If a adult molestes and child, then why can't that person suffer like the child did. I do believe in this saying and I also believe that some of these criminals are getting off to easy.

yes i do believe in capital punishment whats ore certai crimes are so ghastly that u cannot really make the punmishmnent fit the crime.i ahve given such an example please go to the link given below! i am friom india and here we do ahve capital punishment! http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/541633.aspx

In our country life against life or 14 yrs. imprisonment against a life. I think against a life more punishment need to take otherwise people will get inspiration to kill a life. Capital punishment also here for abusing or rape a girl and woman say at least 3 yrs. to 10 yrs. jail.

Capital punishment is definitely not an answer. Capital punishment provides a very bad precedent for others to follow. If killing is made legal through capital punishment or by whatever name it is called then this policy of killing may be practiced by other members of the society under their own brand names. The reason given-if law can kill a person when he/she does wrong why not we? How can one justify this?

Well Megs, I'm a libertarian and anarchist person, so I've always been against every kind of capital punishment, but I have to admit that the latest violent facts shocked me so much that I'm changing idea.... I think that capital punishment isn't a good way to make justice, but I think also that we sometimes need revenge, and so I can understand people who want their rapers to die, for instance. I think that "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is a primitive way of solving problems, but in this period socity is so violent that it isn't easy to take the right decision.

Well all criminals are not professionals, some commit crime at the heat of the moment , I feel those who can be reformed should be tried.

Yes, that is the rule. An eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life, and so on. The rule is just and fair and it is what Allah has ordained.