Do you support the death penalty??? if so, can you explain to me is the death penalty worth innocent people, or shall i say, the wrongfully convicted, losing their lives???
if you are for it, why or why not?
If you are against it, why or why not?
i am not trying to pick an argument, i am just trying to get a better understanding of peoples views. please.... be respectful of different view points.
my thing is, the whole thing is based upon the potential of human error. The Jury. yeah, there are some cases that are open and shut, but are those being rightfully put to death worth the lives who are wrongfully convicted just so the sociopaths get what they deserve?
as a black man, I cant support it...
ReplyDeleteI am biased (due to personal tragedy), but I AM FOR IT! As long as reasonable doubt doesn't exist, I'll remain for it.
ReplyDeleteOn people who deserve it? Yes I do believe in the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteNow I do NOT agree with people who are wrongfully convicted having to die for someone else's crimes. But if there is no reasonable doubt, and a person is truly guilty? Well then so be it if they get the death penalty.
they need to frame more black women it seems...
ReplyDeletesee how fair it is....
BUT, how can we delineate between those who deserve it and those who don't in the eyes of the jury??? cuz, you wont get death if you plead guilty. it is usually only reserved for jury trials and jury convictions.
ReplyDeleteyou cant pick and choose who dies... youre for it or not....
ReplyDeletereasonable or no reasonable doubt....
which is prone to human error.
ReplyDeleteI'm cosigning this right here!
ReplyDeleteThat's the way it is in Missouri.
ReplyDeleteReasonable doubt will always exists when dealing with the potential for human error. even what is considered an open and shut case is prone to mistakes.
ReplyDeleteok, my next question then, how do we fix the system to insure that no one is wrongly put to death?
All I know is that the motherfucker who raped my daughter was identified, and there was evidence corroborating EVERY word my baby told the police. I would have killed him myself and gladly served the time so there goes MY view on the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteI also don't think it's a whole bunch of generally saintly mofos who are getting caught up in capital murder cases...
NO, I AM NOT SAYING THAT. not at all. I just personally think that one innocent being caught in the system is ONE TOO MANY. the system is flawed, all the way around. there is no denying that.
ReplyDeleteNO, I AM NOT SAYING THAT. not at all. I just personally think that one innocent being caught in the system is ONE TOO MANY. the system is flawed, all the way around. there is no denying that.
ReplyDeleteNO, I AM NOT SAYING THAT. not at all. I just personally think that one innocent being caught in the system is ONE TOO MANY. the system is flawed, all the way around. there is no denying that.
ReplyDeleteName one system that isn't?
ReplyDeleteha! lmao
ReplyDeletebut, the criminal justice system is the one that is ultimately responsible to society's right to life and liberty, one would think that would have these kinks worked out.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have had a personal tragedy of my own, I still can not support the death penalty. I don't think people(due to our inherently flawed nature) are equipped (or should be rather) to be able to decide whether another person's life should be taken. That should be left up to one being only in my opinion
ReplyDeleteI support the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteI support it.
ReplyDeleteThe death penalty should be outlawed. When innocent people are executed, it becomes nothing but murder, and last time I looked MURDER is illegal.
ReplyDeleteSo should judges and juries be tried for murder when they convict an innocent person and the punishment for that innocent person is execution?
The point is, what if people that were condemned for committing a crime were put to death, and they didn't do it in the first place?
There's over 100 instances of people on death row who have died as a result of the justice system and they should never have been there in the first place.
I worked for the Crown Law Department here and had to sit in on numerous cases where victims had to describe things that had been done to them, but I still cannot support the death penalty - though that's not really an issue here as it was abolished decades ago.
I just have a really hard time coming to terms with the fact that some people who have been executed have been victims themselves and didn't deserve the punishment that they got for something they didn't do.
Obviously all evidence isn't exhausted, because innocent people are still being convicted of crimes they didn't commit and if we put a human life in such high regard, why are these innocent people dying and why wasn't more done to prove their innocence? Aren't we all innocent till proven guilty or is this just something said to assuage the citizens and in reality, all people who are arrested are automatically guilty?
This might seem a little uncaring, and I don't mean it to be, but at least if there's no death row and, subsequently no death, at least a person can be freed (they're then able to sue or whatever) but when you execute a person and it is later revealed that they weren't the guilty party at all, how do you go about fixing something like that, because I'm guessing a "sorry. we fucked up" just isn't going to cut it.
As it stands, the death penalty and the way that it is decided is too flawed and too open to human error to be justifiable.