Proper Punishment

I have mixed feelings on the death penalty, but this is one person I am wholeheartedly in favor of being executed.  (Shame it won't happen.)

Article wrote: He told The Associated Press in March he’s as indifferent to the homicides as if he had spilled a glass of milk. "Do you get all upset about it? No, you just clean it up and get another glass of milk," he said.

The local paper carried an additional quote in which he "told victims families that they shouldn't complain because their community donated thousands of dollars to pay for the funerals," but I can't find a link to that one.

Linus wrote: Kill him. Honestly, people blame the death penalty when they should in fact be blaming the court systems and how they operate.

True, but until they make the court systems 100% perfect (impossible), how do you sentence someone to death? When 180+ people got let off death row, through DNA, that's scary.

Correct, it is impossible, but just because something is impossible to make fail safe does not mean you should never due it for risk of innocent people dying.


Flying isn't failsaife, innocent people can, and do, die. Should airlines shut down? Riding in a car isn't fail safe, tens of thousands of people a year die from accidents. Should we go back to walking?

There's a reason why in murder trials it cones down to "Proof beyond a reasonable doubt", and it take a lot to get to that burden of proof.

Yes, there are mistakes, and it's sad when an innocent person dies, and no, no one wants the "not in my backyard" mentality, but the good tends to outweigh the bad, as sadistic as that sounds.


What I believe is just as, if not more so, scary are the truly evil, guilty ones getting off of technicalities.




Also, the vast majority of those freed due to DNA testing were from crimes that happened before DNA testing became prevalent, let alone known. Now DNA testing is a pretty big cornerstone in a prosecutions case. Hell, DNA doesn't prove a darn thing either aside from someones skin cell somehow landed on a victim. DNA doesn't prove a crime.


Edited by Linus - 22 May 2009 at 3:28pm

Put him in solitary confinement with a steak knife. He'll figure it out.

Linus:

Because serial killers escape and continue mass murdering once they get out all the time.

/sarcasm

Linus wrote: So, I want everyone to think of this. Lets say there is a triple murder from a simple aggravated robbery. The murder is caught on tape. The suspect is caught by police right after, weapon is possession. Weapon matches that which was used to kill all 3 victims. Suspect had motive. Suspect had means. Suspect's DNA is on victims. Suspect is on videotape doing all 3 murders. Suspect admits he was the one that fired the gun. Suspect admits that he was robbing the victims. Pretty straightforward case. Still against the death penalty? If so, why? Obviously it isn't for the "He might be innocent" argument.

Yes, I am, for moral reasons. Also, not all cases have such damning evidence.

As is the case with abortions--- You can't always rule out the death penalty. It still needs to be an option. It doesn't have to be THE option. Doesn't even have to be a viable option. It just has to be there for when something so vial, so wrong, and so horrible, occurs, that you can do something.



If we caught OBL, you'd want him to live for the rest of his life in a US prison?

Sure why not? What's the difference if he's dead or alive if he's locked up and out of contact with people?

Linus wrote: If we caught OBL, you'd want him to live for the rest of his life in a US prison?

Yes, seeing he rather die, than do life......

Dunbar wrote: A bullet in the head of every serial killer and sex offender will solve all our problems in this world and it will lower the prison population and lower our taxes.

Someone should put you in charge. You're obviously a genius.