People must realize that these people need to die for their horrible crimes! ... How would you feel if you were to be wrongly accused for a murder and put on death row? ... Be that as it may, your still going to die. ... The fact is that they are going to die no matter what. ... How is this helping our society? ...
How has life in jail become known as ten to fifteen years? ... In contrast to this argument though, we have Cynthia Gomez from the Inter-American University who states: "No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ... As it is like this, how can we hold the responsibility of murdering someone just because of humans" natural characteristic of making mistakes?" And she makes a good point: Who are we to say who gets to live and who gets to die? ... No human being has the privileged power of deciding who lives and who dies. ...
People are suppose to live and die, we can't make someone live if there no life. We can stop someone from dying when there alive. ... It is how the death was caused that you should be so worried about. ... If I killed someone I would want to die. ... People have to die sooner or later. ...
Now, it's based on how much money people have. ... J. to die by execution."... If they don't want to be there how are they going to want to put up a good fight. ... Unknowingly, we as a whole pay for the killing of others, through the money we pay for taxes. ... So ponder on this question; How many innocent people have your tax dollars paid to be killed? ...
An execution is one too many because, no matter how it's carried out, the death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading. ... If I killed someone I would want to die. ... Could it be that as long as the state is killing, we are sending a message that killing is a way to solve problems? ... People have to die sooner or later. It is just like saying that we should put all people that smoke in jail because that is attempt of murder to them. ...
Thousands will die. ... We control the lives of these criminals and we should not waste them. ... Whether a man should die now or die later should not be the focus of the capital punishment debate. ... Every time we execute someone, we sink to the same level as the common killer. ... Every time we execute someone, we are desensitizing the value of human life. ...
Many Jews still die from the death penalty and many still administer a needle for putting a criminal to death. ... Many people believe that no matter how sure you are that someone committed a crime, there is always a chance that they didn't. ... How very compassionate of the American government to give him a choice. ... By allowing the government and the legal system to decide who lives and dies is giving them a power not meant for man. ... We should not! ...
Every day when we wake the first thing most of us do is turn on a television, radio, computer, or scan the local newspaper to see what has happened while we slept. ... The media exploits us, and we love every minute of it. ... How does the media's portrait of predator crime become social reality to the copycat? ... Nevertheless, the fact that New York's Zodiac was a copycat didn't change the fact that people had died. ... In June of 1986 Sue Snow of Washington State died from taking cyanide-laced Excedrin. ...
Just as long as there's a major overhauling in the way that we treat criminals convicted of capital crimes. ... Since I obviously wasn't moral enough to see how wrong capital punishment was I was also a dope. ... "If death penalty cases, subject to far more rigorous safeguards than ordinary criminal cases, still manage to convict the innocent, how many innocent people are convicted of crimes that don't carry the death penalty? ... In short, we should maintain order by enforcing a death penalty for severe prison violence. ... The people who would die as a result of this would be ...
It is wrong to have these killers laugh in the face of society just because they have a good lawyer that knows how to manipulate the system. ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... They believe that two wrongs will never make a right and that it is not our decision to make if someone is to die or not, it is God to judge that person. ... What are we showing society by this? ... We must fight " fire with fire". ...
It is wrong to have these killers laugh in the face of society just because they have a good lawyer that knows how to manipulate the system. ... We are blind to see most of the time, that we have a lot of corruption in the police force, and we do very little background checks on the jurors. ... They believe that two wrongs will never make a right and that it is not our decision to make if someone is to die or not, it is God to judge that person. ... What are we showing society by this? ... We must fight " fire with fire". ...
In Horton's article we are introduced to three different families whose sons are involved with gangs. ... Still he did not learn his lesson and claimed that he did not care if he died. ... Because she was raised in the same neighborhood as she raises her son in she understands how much the neighborhood could mean. ... If he's said 'I'd die for my country,' the principal probably would have given him a medal."' ... But all they told her was "There's nothing we can do." ...
Many of the things we do in our daily life to others we would not like done to us. ... But just like a fashion, the reaction from the criminals will eventually die down. ... Yet if people know they"ll die for crimes such as murder, they will not want to do them. ... What would happen to terrorists if capital punishment was reintroduced, they are willing to die for their cause, so they would become martyrs if executed. ... We all agree that we live in a civilised society, then how can we even consider using something as uncivilised such as death as a penalty. ...
Some people deserve to die, but does anyone have the right to kill? ... How is the sentence carried out? ... We all knew he came from a screwed up family, but nothing on the surface ever said just how bad it was. ... So what could we do with the millions of dollars we would spend on capital punishment? ... So why do people still say yes to the death penalty when they see how it is crippling societies? ...
"On April 19, 1995, 168 people, including many young children in the day care center, died in the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK.... The sentences might be anywhere from ten to twenty years in prison, but some crimes force the defendant to die for their crime or crimes. ... "No matter how careful courts are, the possibility of perjured testimony, mistaken honest testimony, and human error remain all too real. We have no way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be certain there were some." ...
But, who deserves to die, whether it is by accident, murder, or capital punishment. ... There have been approximately two dozen people who have been executed who did not commit the crime they were being accused of, that we know of. ... The American society knows too much about people they don't know and not enough on how to save their tax money. ... One is to learn from ones mistakes, so how can the person learn if they are paying for their mistakes with their life? ... Does a prisoner have the right to die quickly rather than wait for years while the appeals process drags on? ...
He stated that he could have died because there was no ample air supply, nor was there any food for him to survive on. ... This is how our justice system works. ... There are bound to be mistakes, we are only human. But for the very few who died in a just manner, many more innocent people's lives will be saved. That is the goal in which we shall seek. ...
We need protection. But we don't need to kill the evil doer in order to provide that protection. ... How about explaining that to the innocent peoples" families, explain to the families that it was alright for their beloved to be wrongly executed. ... Terrorists and assassins already run the risk of dying for their cause. ... The death penalty is the easy way out for criminals because they aren't really learning their lesson, how can they when they are dead? ...
How can we entrust the power to put a person to death in the hands of these people who are not capable of making decisions in which a person's life very much depends on it? ... How many more cases of wrongful conviction have to occur before we can all agree that the system is broken? There are many more alternatives that we can see and take to count before we throw someone into the gallows or gas chamber. ... The poor old lady said she could not even afford proper grave markers for her grandchildren who died. ... But how serious are they in preventing crime? ...
The physical mechanics involved in the act of execution are easy to grasp, but the emotions involved in carrying out the death penalty on another person, regardless of how much they deserve it, are beyond my own understanding. ... It seems easy to understand that as Americans we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with equal opportunities. ... , that we must choose life without parole, at a cost of $1 million for 50 years. ... Nailing hands and feet to a cross in the shape of a T and leaving the person to die performed crucifixion, a form most people are familiar wi...
One of Capone's men named Thompson said "We'll not only reopen places these people have closed, but we'll open 10,000 new ones (speakeasies)" (Prohibition and the Gangsters), showing you how much influence and power these gangsters had. ... Over 10,000 people died during Prohibition from drinking wood, and toxic alcohol. ... Also many Americans died from unintentional poisoning by the federal government themselves. ... Finally, the prohibition caused many people to die from poising due to poorly and unfiltered alcohol. ... We learned a very valuable lesson from the pro...
No person, state, or goveronment should have the right to decide whether a person lives or dies. " It is hypocritical for any society to claim that killing is the most intolerable crime, and then carry out state killings." - www. ... The key argument in support of the death penalty has always been that no offender wants to die, therefore the threat of execution will prevent homicide in society. ... How can one argue that taking anothers life is not cruel and unusual punishment? ... What we must ask our selves is does this man deserve to be put to death, and d...
While growing up we are more attached to our family. As teens we become attached to our friends. ... Depending on the child's understanding of what has happened and how they cope with things, this can be an explanation of how a loss of sense of attachment from family can explain a limited number of crimes. ... See, psychopaths have no conscience, and as much as we would like to think they are rare, and safely locked away, the truth is they are more common than most would ever guess. ... The bewildered partner might turn to friends and family with their story, only to be met with disbe...
." -- Genesis 9:6 "He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death." -- Exodus 21:12 "And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." -- Exodus 21:15 "He who kidnaps a man and sells him shall surely be put to death." -- Exodus 21:16 "Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death." -- Numbers 35:31 Hand-in-hand with the scriptural morality are the benefits and values of capital punishment on our youth's education. ... Until we begin to fight crime in earnes...
How can a definite answer be generated for any one of these questions? ... Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University and the director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, says: The Question here is, at what age can we be so sure of a person's inability to change in the context of an attempt by society to change that person that we would sentence to death? ... Justice O"Connor proceeds to say that she was "reluctant to adopt this conclusion as a matter of constitutional law without better evidence than...
