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Do you support the death penalty?

As much as I don't want a bunch of cutthroats, rapists, child molesters roaming free, there's still a part of me that feels it's not our right to make sentences on other people's lives.

I guess I just can't get out of my head the fact that people have been executed for crimes they never committed. It's been happening since the beginning.

It's a tough subject for me.
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GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M
I support it in theory, but not in practice.

Ultimately, I don't want to empower the State to kill its civilian citizens.

There's simply too much bias, corruption and human error at play when it comes to the criminal justice system here in the US, and there are issues in every country.

Not to mention how expensive it is to the taxpayer, and what an egregious violation of the 8th Amendment against Cruel and Unusual punishment it is.

Just wrong at many levels.

No. It doesn't mean I have compassion for serial killers. I'm not Meredith Grey.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
If it can be shown that the convicted actually did it then I don't have a huge problem with it. However I have seen way too many innocent men and women convicted of a crime they didn't commit.
StraCat · 41-45, M
In a truly fair and just judicial system I would support it. Since thats not the case I can't.
no I do not support it at all, i think it should be illegal because i do not think we should have a right to take away someones life. you can not just fight fire with fire. if someone killed someone does not give anyone the right to kill them. also sometimes people are wrongfully convicted.
LUVELACE · T
yes most asurely,but the delivery method is too civilised,politically correct parsay.
Wraithorn · 56-60, M
I don't really agree with the death sentence. I think it should only be an option if the person being sentenced asks for it instead of life in prison.
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XDHyperGirlXD1 · 31-35, F
not really death penalty is the easy way out cause then the killers dosnt have to live with what they done
hami1091 · 41-45, F
WeighedDown · 41-45, M
If a person rapes a child it's a life sentence for that child so a death sentence for the rapist is justified and understandable.

 
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