cruel... maybe (its not torcher... these days its quick and painless). Unusual... wtf? hellz no. how is it unusual. Wats unusual is seeing a whale magically grow legs, and walk around town. Thats unusual. Death these days is just something people see, yawn, and walk away. Take a look at Africa. No one probably even knows about how the women there are raped so that they make babies of the other ethnicality instead of there own race. Bolding unusual doesn't help theone. Its cruel you shoulda bolded. XD. The ammendment is there for torture more or less. It should stay becuz if someone raped or killed someone in my family, I'd probably want to see them stuck under a car and dragged untill there was nothing left of them. <----thats definiatly breaking more than just ammendment 8 i think. But yea, im sure you would also want to see them dead if they killed your only parent (if one died or left you). Or killed your only brother, or raped your sister. I would like to see justice. But i also would like to see them proven guilty before they kill them. Like not just a fingerprint, I'm talking like 3-4, and a weapon, and some sperm samples (if raped) you know, some h-core evidence.
I'm against the death penalty, not on principle, but in practice.
Too many people that were convicted in the past are currently being absolved due to new DNA evidence, and who's to say we won't get even more 20 years from now? Life in prison at least allows a soft-reset button, albeit an incomplete one.
I think that they should use a bit of both death penalty and lfe in prison, depending on the person. The Strong-willed should spend a life in prison. Muslim terrorists prefer suicide (as we can clearly tell) so life in prison would be a good punishment for them.
For those premeditating murderers that kill and expect to get away with it should die.
Thats what theyre saying though, do you ever fully know someone is guilty? For example, all the people being aquitted w/ dna evidence like razaki said.
In my opinion I think this should be allowed. Yes the 8th Amendment says "No cruel or unusual punishment". But murdering innocent people falls under cruel and unusual punishment don't you think? There are people out there that do not care who they hurt and they go to jail, geto ut in a few years and do it all over again. Those people need to be put to death, ASAP. No sitting on death row for 20 years.
Well to be honest with you I did not know that. My soulution to that would be better investigations. In my opinion we have so many crimes that everything gets over looked. The jury doesn't feel like being there or get personal issues in the way. Have you ever seen the movie "12 Angry Men"? This is a perfect example of what the jury does to suspects
At least 10% of people convicted of serious or violent crimes are proven innocent
if they're proven innocent then why are they guilty?
think of it on a large scale 10% is 100,000/1,000,000 9 hundred thousand are murderers out of 1 hundred thousand
yes i support the death penalty why do people have to waste money on people who are going to die in prison anyway?
Pros: make it quick, take less space, have more money Cons: might have future w/ parol after the 29 years they have to be in for but will most likely commit suicide in reaction to the outside world with no cash (shawshank redemption movie is great )
in genocide cases, treason with fair representation, conspiracy to commit treason with fair representation... i guess thats it. treason includes bombing federal buildings, aiding terrorists, being a terrorist..
Honestly i think the death penalty is ok in a few situations but i think it's to nice for a lot of people well a few i.e. terrorists serial killers. my music teacher once told me that in a book he read a punishment was to have all of your senses "removed" from your brain so you were litearly a living shell but ya...
in ceatain cases the death penalty should be used for example if you kill someone on accident you should only have a life sentance if you kill one or more people on purpose then death penalty should be used if the jury thinks that it's the right punishment
