Are you for or against the death penalty?  

no,i am not against death penalty as death sentence is given to those who have made terrible mischievous activities and this punishment is required so that others can take it as a example and work avid such type of severe mistakes..

Here is the thing, I think that someone living the rest of their lives in hellish circumstances is something that I prefer. I do not personally believe in the death penalty because I think its worse to live in misery than have death. BUT i will admit that I have never had someone that I love be murdered, so I do not know what I would feel if GOD FORBID the worst happened. but on the other hand, they are too f'ing soft on the scum bags of the world. Scott Peterson is one of them, he is protected in the perison system and I wish they wouldn't because of what he did, i want him to be brutalized every single day for the rest of his life.So perhaps you and I can agree on that the prison system needs to be reformed so stricter on the real freaking sickos?

Actually I'm not against death penalty. What I'm against is the process the government have when accusing a criminal. Here in the Philippines most of the people are against death penalty specially the church, because they believe its against God's law. But for me its okey, so that criminals would stop to think of the death penalty.

I'm against death penalty because a dead person can no longer suffer. In hell, maybe but nobody can tell for sure. If I want a person to suffer, just put him in jail and do hard labor and release him when his an old man and let him live the rest of his life in misery because of his lost time, the stigma of being an ex convict and the loneliness that goes with it. Cheers!

Which would you prefer? Being locked away in dreadful, grotty conditions, surrounded by undesirable individuals, and knowing that you may be living like that for another 50 or 60 years - or dying in a matter of weeks? And endless years to live thinking about what brought about this situation - so much time for regret, no chance ever to straighten things out.

Life meaning life, if the prison system is as tough as it should be (so let us ignore the holiday camp regime that they have in the UK for example), would be a very unpleasant prospect. Death would be a relief and a release in comparison.

I am opposed to the death penalty on other grounds anyway, but I do not anyway see it as necessarily a worse punishment. Life meaning life in rigorous, strictly enforced conditions (without any prospect of parole) should be the norm.

hi there, it depends on the situation i think. in my mind, for those guilty people who had killed person, they should be judged death penalty, coz life is the gift from god and the biggest treasure to every parents. everyone has no right to take another's life. so they should be paid with thier own life. but for those who dont, it is not wise to take their life.

I am in favour of the death penalty as a MAXIMUM penalty for some PROVEN crimes. The problem is the proof. We all know that there have been cases of wrongful imprisonment and of wrongful capital punishment. In a cut and dried case (caught in the act and confessed or such) I believe the death penalty should be carried out quickly (not on death row for years) and as humanely as possible.

Where life imprisonment is the punishment, I think prison life should be much more stringent. While prisoners need physical and mental exercise, they should not have the "good" things of life. I know putting them to work would increase the risk factor but this is something that should be employed provided safety of the guards was ensured.

I'm against the death penalty as I feel criminals could feel their punishments more when serving sentence for life than immediately ending their lives. Besides this could have a little more time to correct those wrong judgedment, those who were pinned guilty, when all the while they're innocent.

I'm against death penalty because I believe that no one has the right to take away other human's life no matter what position he has in the society.
What I want to do is penalized them. So for example, a man raped a woman, have him _ by a _.

If he had killed a lot of people, I think life imprisonment without the possibility of pardon or parole would suffice. Taking one's freedom and family away maybe not enough for all the lives he had taken but making the life of a criminal more miserable would not bring back a dead loved one's life. Even if you have him tortured to death, would it change anything? Of course no. Let God deal with him alone.

I'm saying this not because I have not been a victim. Believe me I have been. Two of my cousins have tried to "mol_st" me many times when I was just 4 til 6 years old. I have not even told this to my parents until I was in my 20's. Now, I am 33, I believe I have forgiven them but I just don't prefer to see them again.

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