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Top Disagreement
If someone has committed an unforgivable crime with undeniable evidence in the conviction of that crime, why should we pay to keep them alive in prison?
@9GYNN3Z4mos4MO
If we believe others do not have the right to take away someone's life, then why would anyone have the right to take theirs?
Technology can bring new evidence to a case and prove seemingly guilty people innocent many years later. And I simply don't want to live in a country which murders its own citizens who may have had mental health problems when committing crimes. The executioner is a far worse cold blooded murderer than the criminal; crimes can be committed during most heightened emotions; an executioner does this in cold blood, and even worse, gets paid for it!
@9GXWLJ54mos4MO
None of us have ever died and come back to tell what it's like. We should only enact punishments that we know the consequences too.
@9GX7Y2G4mos4MO
Because I don't like the idea of the Government deciding who lives or dies as this can become discriminatory
@9FZ28JH 5mos5MO
If someone has committed an unforgivable crime with undeniable evidence in the conviction of that crime, why should we pay to keep them alive in prison?
@9FZ4V32Conservative5mos5MO
How can the punishment for killing someone be killing someone. We will all be judged by God one day.
@9FZ28JH 5mos5MO
If god existed you would have a valid argument. Politics needs to be based on reality. We cannot subscribe to fiction as it is not fact. Thanks for the reply though. Have a blessed day.
@9GZY9H7Conservative4mos4MO
Innocent women children and men are murdered raped and brutally assaulted every day, paedophiles, rapists, murderers, human traffickers, drug traffickers. All these horrible groups of people deserve to be put to death in the worst way possible.
@9GWTR874mos4MO
I think the penalty should charged to murderers, rapists and peadophiles that are guilty with hard evidence
@9FXCWMW 5mos5MO
The UK will seem weak and inadequate if we do not use the death penalty to punish the most serious crimes that have shown to have rational, malicious intent like sexual assault and human trafficking. Keeping these people n life-sentences in prison is not enough because those people can live there without worrying about anything or feeling any punishment once they've lived 10 or so years while the victim will still be traumatised for life. No point rehabilitating these people at this point. Get rid of them so that softer criminals can use prison as a lesson and rehabilitation to go back out into society as a rational human being
@9FZ6DKK5mos5MO
The life-term prison sentence isn't tough enough for the people who receive them. They stay locked in a cell for the rest of life is like a luxury for murdering or raping someone. They basically get a get-out-of-jail-free card, free accommodation and board for the rest of their life for taking someone's life away from a fam
@9GYWQZT4mos4MO
The death penalty is not a violation of the sanctity of life, but an affirmation of it as it makes those who violate life's sanctity pay the ultimate price.
@9FV9LQWConservative6mos6MO
The life-term prison sentence isn't tough enough for the people who receive them. They stay locked in a cell for the rest of life is like a luxury for murdering or raping someone. They basically get a get-out-of-jail-free card, free accommodation and board for the rest of their life for taking someone's life away from a family.
@9G7LX8Z5mos5MO
There are some crimes which are awful and are worth the punishment. Because the entire point of jail and criminal punishment is to meet the crime with equal punishment and when someone has taken a life the only punishment that is equal to the devastating loss of a living human is the life of the killer.
@9FT5MWT6mos6MO
Someone rapes and murders your child/spouse/family member, and your taxes should pay for their prison stay. No way. Death is the only answer.
@9GK9P82Conservative5mos5MO
Speakers the legal process is not invaluable in innocent person could be put to death that is too hire cost
@9G7GNKJ5mos5MO
People do horrific, pedophilia and child murder and you couldn’t be a sane person and say that they deserve to live, and that tax payers should fund them in prison system.
@9FY278X5mos5MO
Whilst to most the death penalty may seem far too intense and inhuman, I believe that it should only be used in the most extreme cases e.g. murder, manslaughter, sex-trafficking etc. I believe this due to the fact that, within most prisons, these convicted criminals will end up potentially being abused or even killed by fellow inmates which puts more people in harms way.
@9FZRH335mos5MO
If someone kills someone they deserve to be killed. It's not a case of if you kill someone using the death penalty that makes you just as bad because you are killing someone who isn't innocent. Also why should the family of the perpetrator get to keep in contact or even have the satisfaction of knowing they are alive while the victims families grieve.
@9GH9YLF5mos5MO
Murdering someone for committing murder makes you just as bad as the person who committed the crime. It's hypocritical. Also, the amount of people who have been wrongly accused of crimes or framed should be enough to abolish any and all death penalties.
@9FYGTHT5mos5MO
If a single innocent person is given the death penalty, it will undermine the meaning of Justice in our society.
@9GNT3CF5mos5MO
For as long as the death penalty is legal, there will always be wrongful convictions and murder of innocent people. Whether that is only 2% of people on death row, that is 2% too many. Death shouldn’t ever be a punishment, a life in prison is far worse.
@9GJ5HP2Liberal Democrat5mos5MO
the death penalty is a deprivation of human rights, i believe no one should be killed for their actions, no matter how serious it is.
it is often used to the poorest of the society, and can be misused so the government can silence people.
@9GGRZJC5mos5MO
No government should have the power to kill its own people, as the abuse of such power would have grave consequences.
@9FWWR7X6mos6MO
With systematic racism, wrongful convictions and massive miscarriages of justice, the death penalty is irreversible, if something is found to be incorrect. People are very good at using evidence to connect to a story they wish to be heard and if people are convinced of a story they are being told, this could then impact on innocent lives.
@9FWZFSZ5mos5MO
The possibility that people can be wrongly convicted and who are we to decide who can live and who can die? People should be given the opportunity to reform and do better
@9FT9DC46mos6MO
There is always the option to redeem yourself for your crimes, even if the criminal seems to lack any remose they may realise their wrongs in time and repent, even if they do not ever repent spending the rest of their life in jail for their actions is a much greater punishment than allowing them to die easily.
@9GKJD4D5mos5MO
My simplified opinion is that it is a very serious offence to kill someone and to intentionally contribute to someone's death is of the worst acts a human can achieve. This opinion is indiscriminate and I only believe that killing is justified in the instance of self defense if your own personal life were to be threatened. I believe those who commit murder to be victims themselves as to be brought up to believe that human life means so little. Murder is something I believe to be taught in the same way that one can be taught against it and those teachings are not chosen by the individual but forced upon them by outside factors. I do not believe any crime warrants death nor that any human being is inherently good or evil. Just products of their nature and nurture.
@9H59TY94mos4MO
People with underlining genetic faults at birth is impossible to be rehabilitated ,with drugs as most will refuse change, or feel remorse for the harm either murder or child molestation
@9H58V2H4mos4MO
If someone has, for instance, killed someone else, to stop the perpetuating cycle of revenge about to ensue the death penalty is a very fair punishment. Mental scarring from rapes and murder should be punishable by death and all forms of paedophilia should receive the death penalty unless it is with someone over the age of 16 regardless of the power dynamic in that relationship. If someone murders once, what will stop them from doing it again? Why would I or you want to waste tax payers money on people like this? Do you support their actions?
@9H5BJZR4mos4MO
the death penalty would reduce overcrowding in prisons as the certain number of prisoners that are deemed by fair trial to allow the death penalty would be removed and make more space.
@9G7TFD95mos5MO
there are some crimes which are unforgivable and the entire point of criminal punishment is that the crime is outweighed by the jail time. I think that the only punishment that is even close to outweighing it is death because the life of the victim is worth more than the life of the criminal and the murder of the victim should not be smeared.
@9FXJKJ45mos5MO
Human beings have the right to life, and that should not be encroached upon based on moral standards. If we say killing is bad, how can we square that with killing those we consider undesirable?
@9H4D4W94mos4MO
We give whole life tarrifs with no prospect of release or rehabilitation, which costs the country money. Just kill them
@9G4MRCQ5mos5MO
As someone else or an organisation will be stained with a criminal’s blood, it’s no different than murder but with a reason that’s “lawful”.
@9KSCZYZConservative1wk1W
If you take a life away then your life will be taken away as a punishment for the crime you have committed
@9JZNCRB1mo1MO
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/76th2011/ExhibitDocument/OpenExhibitDocument?exhibitId=17686&fileDownloadName=h041211ab501_pescetta.pdf
@9HSY3GK3mos3MO
Those capable of committing such severe atrocities in which to trigger the death penalty are not capable of being rehabilitated to a state that could be considered safe to the general public.
@9HM3CHNBritish National 3mos3MO
We are letting to many murders walk away with only serving a few years of there sentence which is already only on average 25 years and they get given a new life people who have taken the life of another human do not deserve there own life.
@9H63DJF4mos4MO
Understandably, there is obviously the argument of getting an incorrect person killed. However I only think it should happen when there is damning evidence to show that the person who commited the crime did. When someone murders someone or rapes them and ruins their life in my opinion they do not value the human race and do not aid the human race and do not have any reason to be alive. Ruining someone's life and their family's life is truly unnacceptable and should not be grouped in with other lesser criminals.
@9GXB6RZLiberal Democrat4mos4MO
Punishments should be decided by an unbiased party. 'Punishments' should be focused on rehabilitation.The death penalty is a disgraceful act. Having to choose life and death puts people in a terrible position of power. What if this person is actually innocent? It would be a massive irreversible injustice.
@9GM8Q9P5mos5MO
What other methods could be used to get rid of violent or dangerous criminals that have committed serious, unforgivable crimes?
@9GLCL6T5mos5MO
If someone has committed an unforgivable crime with undeniable evidence in the conviction of that crime, why should we pay to keep them alive in prison?
@9GH45LR5mos5MO
It cost the taxpayer money to keep all prisoners behind bars until the sentence is served or they are deemed fit to re-enter public life. Why should the taxpayer pay for keeping someone locked-up until they die? These people have been found to have commit the worst crimes and they are a danger to society. They live at a cost to society, the death penalty solves this problem. The death penalty also prevents these types of people from ever being re-entered into society in the future. I struggle to believe that people would object to mass murders, serial rapist, child molesters and extremist terrorists being put to death for there crimes, rather than the public being compelled to pay for there living until they die of natural causes.
It wil reduce overcrowding in prisons and reduce the strain on public resources paying out to house, feed and clothe individuals who have committed the most heinous of crimes.
People who are given the death penalty must be thoroughly investigated first to reduce the number of criminals falsely accused. Criminals given the death penalty must have committed a crime that would cause harm to multiple people with ill intent.
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