I am against the death penalty completely apart from the more serious matters like for example: Terrorists and Murderers. It's a 50/50 to be honest as they cant always justify who is and whose not guilty. :/

Lolno, we're supposed to rehabilitate these people back into society - or keep them locked up for the rest of their lives.

Losing 25-years of your life to prison is a better punishment than death. You execute the person and it's over, the assailant feels no guilt/remorse/no chance of changing. If you let the person live and do 25-years in jail, that is justice.

Death is a cheat way out, you want these people to rot in their cell and think about the life choices they made to get to that point. Perhaps remorse and a conscious may set in and the prisoner can be rehabilitated.

You think executions should be legal? Go look at Saudi or Murica.

skatertg wrote Lolno, we're supposed to rehabilitate these people back into society - or keep them locked up for the rest of their lives.

Losing 25-years of your life to prison is a better punishment than death. You execute the person and it's over, the assailant feels no guilt/remorse/no chance of changing. If you let the person live and do 25-years in jail, that is justice.

Death is a cheat way out, you want these people to rot in their cell and think about the life choices they made to get to that point. Perhaps remorse and a conscious may set in and the prisoner can be rehabilitated.

You think executions should be legal? Go look at Saudi or Murica.

Okay, understood we need to rehabilitate them, but in the cases of mass murder or with intent.

Then people should be imprisoned until the end of their natural life.

The person who they murdered are gone forever and their families will suffer for life, and the murderer will suffer for 25 years. In my opinion not enough.

A man murdered his ex girlfriend and only got 11 years!

NextGenUpdate wrote

skatertg wrote Lolno, we're supposed to rehabilitate these people back into society - or keep them locked up for the rest of their lives.

Losing 25-years of your life to prison is a better punishment than death. You execute the person and it's over, the assailant feels no guilt/remorse/no chance of changing. If you let the person live and do 25-years in jail, that is justice.

Death is a cheat way out, you want these people to rot in their cell and think about the life choices they made to get to that point. Perhaps remorse and a conscious may set in and the prisoner can be rehabilitated.

You think executions should be legal? Go look at Saudi or Murica.

Okay, understood we need to rehabilitate them, but in the cases of mass murder or with intent.

Then people should be imprisoned until the end of their natural life.

The person who they murdered and their families will suffer for life, and the murderer will suffer for 25 years. In my opinion not enough.

A man murdered his ex girlfriend and only got 11 years!

Yes the families will suffer but by executing the criminal, the criminal is not going to suffer. Death is an easy way out for criminals who are going to spend their entire life behind bars, they should be made to sit in a cell for the years of their sentence.

Most 'mass murderers' get slapped with a 'life' sentence, once it's almost over the sentence will just be extended.

It's a difficult subject but i think there shouldn't be any of this "released early" because of good behavior bullshit. A human life should be worth more in the eyes of the court/law.
Apparently taking a humans life is worth up to 25-years of your life. Life should mean life - depending on the crime.

skatertg wrote

NextGenUpdate wrote

skatertg wrote Lolno, we're supposed to rehabilitate these people back into society - or keep them locked up for the rest of their lives.

Losing 25-years of your life to prison is a better punishment than death. You execute the person and it's over, the assailant feels no guilt/remorse/no chance of changing. If you let the person live and do 25-years in jail, that is justice.

Death is a cheat way out, you want these people to rot in their cell and think about the life choices they made to get to that point. Perhaps remorse and a conscious may set in and the prisoner can be rehabilitated.

You think executions should be legal? Go look at Saudi or Murica.

Okay, understood we need to rehabilitate them, but in the cases of mass murder or with intent.

Then people should be imprisoned until the end of their natural life.

The person who they murdered and their families will suffer for life, and the murderer will suffer for 25 years. In my opinion not enough.

A man murdered his ex girlfriend and only got 11 years!

Yes the families will suffer but by executing the criminal, the criminal is not going to suffer. Death is an easy way out for criminals who are going to spend their entire life behind bars, they should be made to sit in a cell for the years of their sentence.

Most 'mass murderers' get slapped with a 'life' sentence, once it's almost over the sentence will just be extended.

It's a difficult subject but i think there shouldn't be any of this "released early" because of good behavior bullshit. A human life should be worth more in the eyes of the court/law.
Apparently taking a humans life is worth up to 25-years of your life. Life should mean life - depending on the crime.

Agreed on the fact that the criminal will not suffer as we don't know what comes after death.

I think that they should be sentenced to life in prison until the end of their natural life.

however I do believe in death sentences for mass murderers but again its a touch subject and maybe humans should not decide the life of another human.

As we would be doing just as bad. All of your opinions make my view a lot different after reading what you have to say.

skatertg wrote Lolno, we're supposed to rehabilitate these people back into society - or keep them locked up for the rest of their lives.

Losing 25-years of your life to prison is a better punishment than death. You execute the person and it's over, the assailant feels no guilt/remorse/no chance of changing. If you let the person live and do 25-years in jail, that is justice.

Death is a cheat way out, you want these people to rot in their cell and think about the life choices they made to get to that point. Perhaps remorse and a conscious may set in and the prisoner can be rehabilitated.

You think executions should be legal? Go look at Saudi or Murica.

Although I, too, don't agree with the death penalty, I don't agree with the points you have made in complement.
The main point is not that death is a "cheat way out", It's that nobody has right to say who lives or dies. If a death penalty is to be even considered the sentence would typically exceed the criminals lifespan. Hence, from a societal view, rehabilitation is irrelevant.

Prisons were not introduced so that criminals would suffer and it's wrong to think that's the case.

I don't believe in the death penalty because it's pointless, cost more then lifetime jail, not always right, and inhumane in some cases.

Even if someone "deserves" to die for whatever they did, I'd personally rather see them rot in jail for life. Like if someone killed a really close friend of mine or family, I'd rather hope they got life in prison, over death. That way they can experience the pain and suffering till they die.