The Death Penalty

Mizzougrad96 · Oct 27, 2008

For cop killers or child killers...

Heads they die, tails they die painfully.

Goldeaston · Oct 27, 2008

WaylonJennings said:

Mizzougrad96 said:

WaylonJennings said:

Mizzougrad96 said:

If you kill a policeman or a child, you deserve to die.
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Maybe so. Not for us to decide, though. Certainly not for the government to decide.
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Should we flip a coin?
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So much for the intelligent debate I predicted.
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Did you also predict a Bengals Super Bowl victory this year?

Mizzougrad96 · Oct 27, 2008

Lions-Bengals ;D

harbinger · Oct 27, 2008

Few say it better than Leonard Pitts:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008308425_opin26pitts.html

From the column:

Understand: I oppose the death penalty for many reasons.

In the first place, it is biased by race: Offenders whose victims were white are more likely to be put to death than those whose victims were of some other race.

In the second place, it is biased by gender: Male offenders are more likely to be put to death than females who commit similar crimes.

In the third place, it is biased by class: Those who can afford high-priced lawyers are more likely to escape execution (paging O.J. Simpson) while those who can't are more apt to wind up in the death house.

In the fourth place, it has no deterrent effect.

In the fifth place, it is more expensive than the alternative: Life in prison without parole.

In the sixth place, it is wrong — and not just wrong, but crude, cruel and immoral. No government should arrogate unto itself the right to put its citizens to death.

But you know what? Put all those reasons aside. Because the thing that troubles me more than all of them combined, the thing that makes Davis' case an abomination, is the simple possibility, indeed, the likelihood, that we will get it, have already gotten it, flat-out wrong.
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DemoChristian · Oct 27, 2008

Mizzougrad96 said:

For cop killers or child killers...

Heads they die, tails they die painfully.
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Honest question -- why should killing a cop be any worse than killing a non-cop?

spnited · Oct 27, 2008

Mizzougrad96 said:

For cop killers or child killers...

Heads they die, tails they die painfully.
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Why is a policeman's or child's life worth more than yours or mine?

slappy4428 · Oct 27, 2008

It isn't. But is also shows that if the killer will kill one of them, he/she will kill anyone...

DemoChristian · Oct 27, 2008

slappy4428 said:

It isn't. But is also shows that if the killer will kill one of them, he/she will kill anyone...
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Yes, but you could argue that about any murder. Killers are killers, I think. If you are crazy enough to kill someone (unless it is self-defense), then you are crazy enough to do ANYTHING.

Smallpotatoes · Oct 27, 2008

I oppose it, but I've given up trying to argue about it. It's not going away in my lifetime.

Mizzougrad96 · Oct 27, 2008

DemoChristian said:

slappy4428 said:

It isn't. But is also shows that if the killer will kill one of them, he/she will kill anyone...
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Yes, but you could argue that about any murder. Killers are killers, I think. If you are crazy enough to kill someone (unless it is self-defense), then you are crazy enough to do ANYTHING.
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But we should let them all live, right?

bigpern23 · Oct 27, 2008

spnited said:

Mizzougrad96 said:

For cop killers or child killers...

Heads they die, tails they die painfully.
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Why is a policeman's or child's life worth more than yours or mine?
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Took the question right out of my mouth (though I was more focused on the cop than the kid -- cop can defend him/herself much better than a child).

Mr. Sluggo · Oct 27, 2008

It is a fantastic deterrent. Name one person put to death who proceeded to kill again?

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