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Is Capital punishment a fair legal practice or it contradicts human rights?

Anish Asokan @RevivedWarrior (3853) • India 15 Sep 24

Death penalty is the highest punishment possible in criminal justice. It has been abolished in certain states in US and in certain countries. Many support capital punishment to most heinous crimes such as murder, serving as a...

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Sexual assault should be dealt with capital punishment

Anindita Sengupta @aninditasen (18198) • Raurkela, India 21 Jul 23

The act to demean someone or shatter psychologically through sexual assault should be curbed with capital punishment. A person assaulting someone sexually should get death sentence. Recently amonth ago a in Manipur a woman as...

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Williams botched execution changed history

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 13 Jul 20

Likely you have heard about the botched execution of William Williams which lead to capital punishments being ixnay'ed in Minnesota. If you haven't, the gist of it is that the sheriff miscalculated the length of the rope,...

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Capital Punishment

STOUTjodee @STOUTjodee (3670) • United States 14 Aug 18

Today i heard on the radio that there was going to be an execution in the state of Nebraska. First one in over 20 years.The legislature in 2015 voted to abandon the death penalty. Apparently there was a rush to have the death...

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execution

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Should a teenager rapist get capital punishment?

Anindita Sengupta @aninditasen (18198) • Raurkela, India 11 May 17

Recently four rapists of a girl were sentenced to death of which one was a teenager when he had committed the crime. Nirbhaya the victim had been raped and murdered brutally by these four rogues in Delhi, India. The accused...

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On Death Penalty

Rogelio @rog0322 (2828) • Cagayan De Oro, Philippines 26 Mar 17

A lot of stir is floating around these days on social media, radio, television and print all about sending persons which committed heinous crimes to the death row. The Philippines has done away with it sometime ago but it is...

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An Interesting Fact: One You May Not Know

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 5 Oct 16

Over the years, there have been many DIFFERENT forms of punishment meted out to criminals and dissenters. Everything from “burning at the stake” to “lethal injection” to “hanging,” “electric chair” and numerous other methods...

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Last Words of Death Row Inmates

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 30 Sep 15

Went through each slide. All 25 of them. Not one of those convicts said "I'm sorry." Is it because "sorry" is such a hard word to say? Depressing. Thought maybe there was one who would express remorse....

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What's your stance on capital punishment?

Lucy Leyshon @RaineLockheart (219) 28 Nov 12

I'm unsure to be honest. On one hand, I think the 'an eye for an eye' saying is pretty accurate. And I'm talking rapists, paedophiles and murderers here, not shoplifters and fraudsters. But on the other, in alot of cases I...

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Canada & Capital Punishment For Citizens Abroad

gamcguinness @gamcguinness (4) • Canada 21 Jan 12

In 1983 Ronald Smith, a native of Alberta in Canada, was sentenced to death on charges of kidnapping and murder of two Native Americans. Smith took the two cousins into an isolated area and shot them both in the head. He has been...

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Do You Think Death Sentence Will Keep Serious Crimes And Terrorism At Bay?

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 10 Oct 11

I know this discussion is gonna open the Pandora Box but I think there are enough horrific and serious crimes starting with intentional murder, serial killers, drug traffickers and most of all, terrorists. In my opinion, if a...

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Judicial hanging.

DoctorDidi @DoctorDidi (7018) • India 10 Feb 11

Hanging to death is a criminal offence to be condemned by all. Judicial hanging is also a type of murder but the difference is that it is sponsored by the state itself. Do you think any republic has the right to kill its own...

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What do you think of the death penalty?

chocoholicx @chocoholicx (228) 2 Nov 10

I live in the UK, a place where capital punishment has been abolished since 1964. I'm really undecided whether to agree with it or not and I was just wondering what everyone else's views on it were.

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Pratibha Case

Peregrina @tw99384 (259) • Jodhpur, India 9 Oct 10

Why can't the Government make it a law that capital punishment should be given to each and every one who is proved of raping and killing? either one or for both crimes the culprit should be torchered and hanged till death...

Death penalty in your state??

LaLa Leo @mrscallands22 (2851) • United States 1 Oct 10

Is the death penalty practiced in your state? It is here in Virginia and I have no problem with it at all. I feel like some people do deserve death for their criminal actions that seriously hurt other people. This will guarantee...

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Capital Punishment- A requirement or a barbaric act that should be abolished.

akshay167 @akshay167 (60) • India 26 Sep 10

In India Ajmal Kasab has recently been awarded the death sentence. This brings capital punishment again into the spotlight. Now the question is whether capital punishment is correct in todays world where we are constantly fighting...

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Death Penalty

oindy54 @oindy54 (3445) • India 20 Sep 10

Many countries around the world accept the death penalty as an extreme form of punishment for an extreme crime. Among these countries are: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Cameroon and some states of America too. The ways to...

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How much does a bullet cost?

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 29 Mar 10

[i]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/27/just-cost-death-penalty-killer-state-budgets/?test=latestnews Capital murder trials and death row boondoggles are wreaking havoc on budgets across the country as many states are now...

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Are you FOR or AGAINST death penalty?

Kevin @excellence7 (3698) • Mauritius 10 Mar 10

Hi friends Are you For or Against death penalty (Capital Punishment) ? If Yes, why. If No, why. Regards Kevin

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Should capital punishment be abolished?

yasmeen16 @yasmeen16 (80) • Mauritius 14 Feb 10

Capital punishment is punishment by dealth. It is practised in many country today, even though many others have abolished it. History records that this was a common punishment in many societies and was actually sanctioned by most...

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dealth penality

purnishment by death

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