The Death Penalty

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/nyregion/07slay.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/nyregion/07slay.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Normally I don’t like postings about the latest car accident, or other horror stories about campus death, etc.</p>

<p>But I found this to be a very interesting case, with lots of ethical implications.</p>

<p>Normally, I am an opponent of the death penalty, but I think it is warranted for this crime. </p>

<p>What do others think?</p>

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<p>I think most death penalty cases are similar to this one: used only for very serious crimes. At least, thus is the case in most modern cases and there are, of course, exceptions. Therefore, I am usually pro-death penalty.</p>

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<p>I am also reluctant to use the death penalty. These criminals deserve the death penalty. I’d even be inclined to inflicting both cruel and unusual punishments.</p>

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<p>I am against the death penalty (and have explicitly argued for my stand in many MUN’s). But whenever I hear of such cases, I always strongly rethink my view. In such a case, I think the death penalty should be implemented.</p>

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<p>Sick. I’m all for letting them go in the same manner they killed their victims.</p>

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<p>i will always be against the death penalty, that would not have stopped these animals or animals to come</p>

<p>I am not one for revenge or sinking to that level, we have the death penalty in common with some of the most horrific countries in the world</p>

<p>I find the death penalty repulisive, always have, always will</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s wise or valid to argue the death penalty in general terms (i.e. is it right or wrong?) by using specific cases. I think it’s either morally right or morally wrong, regardless of the case. (I happen to think, like the VAST majority of the civilized world, that it is always morally wrong.)</p>

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<p>I don’t think the state should waste tax $ feeding and housing monsters like this.</p>

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<p>Save enough $$$ for the Newark killers. Not sure if NJ still has death but if they do, go for it.</p>

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<p>I agree with weenie, no real or hypothetical case would ever change my mind</p>

<p>Is our need for hurting another, executing them in the same way somehow more valid than their crimes? </p>

<p>Same deeds and actions, different motives- is one more moral…</p>

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<p>I’m with you, atomom. I don’t think of the death penalty as a deterent. Rather, I think of it as “taking out the trash”, exterminating the roaches, etc. I don’t happen to value the life of someone who shows such devastating disregard for the lives of others. I believe we must protect society, and rid ourselves of human vermen. This does not, in my opinion, involve housing, feeding, clothing, affording lifetime medical and legal benefits to such, while many of the good and law-abiding among us live in poverty and hopelessness. That, to me, is just the height of insanity. </p>

<p>It also defies logic to me that some people feel just fine about sucking the brains out of an unborn fetus, or tearing it limb from limb, while despairing over the death of a sociopath.</p>

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<p>Executions are known to have been carried out in the following 25 countries in 2006:</p>

<p>Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, North Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, the United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen</p>

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<p>There’s no reason to continue to pay to feed, clothe and give them shelter. I’m for.</p>

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<p>Turns out it’s cheaper to lock them up for life. (As if it’s an issue of dollars and cents…)</p>

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<p>“Turns out it’s cheaper to lock them up for life. (As if it’s an issue of dollars and cents…)”</p>

<p>That’s only because our legal system is set up to drag out the process of carrying out the death sentence. So not only must they STILL be sheltered, clothed, feed, and provided for medically for years into the foreseeable future, while the appeals process grinds on and on, but staggering amounts in legal costs must be wasted in that process. That needs to change.</p>

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<p>Personally, I think life in prison would be a worse punishment.</p>

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<p>What about the Nuremburg War Trials and resulting International Criminal Court? I think 41 countries are a member of this - that would suggest to me the VAST majority of the world does not oppose the death penalty, as stated earlier.</p>

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<p>Info on death penalty and what countires do it:</p>

<p><a href=“Search | Infoplease”>Search | Infoplease;

<p>check out the countries that still do the death penalty, we are in swell company</p>

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<p>“Punishment” is not my concern. Whether it would “feel worse” to the criminal to be put to death or be in prison for life, matters not one wit to me. Ridding ourselves of the social equivalent to rat infestation is. Does anyone think it makes sense to merely round up the city’s rats and warehouse them in heated and air conditioned buildings on the outskirts of town?</p>

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<p>Like Weenie and Citygirlsmom, I am opposed to the death penalty in all cases. I have many reasons, but one of them is that innocent people are all too often convicted and sent to prison. I shudder to think that we would use the death penalty on any of these innocents. <a href=“http://www.innocenceproject.org/[/url]”>http://www.innocenceproject.org/&lt;/a&gt; It is far better to err on the side of caution. Life in prison with no chance of parole seems like a better choice.</p>