The Death Penalty is a Good Thing

[Don't Panic]

The death penalty is a good thing. Why crowd the prison system and waste taxpayer money just so that you lock someone up for god so many years? Locking someone up for many years is a form of torture. It is much more humane to just kill them. All that you are doing is pro-longing the suffering by keeping them alive. There is nothing wrong with sentencing someone to death for serious crimes. They are a lost cause and it is highly illogical to confine them in small spaces for years on end instead of just giving them a quick injection or the guillotine.

This is the first thing you've written here that I can say I agree with.

[Meekychuppet]

The death penalty is a good thing. Why crowd the prison system and waste taxpayer money just so that you lock someone up for god so many years? Locking someone up for many years is a form of torture. It is much more humane to just kill them. All that you are doing is pro-longing the suffering by keeping them alive. There is nothing wrong with sentencing someone to death for serious crimes. They are a lost cause and it is highly illogical to confine them in small spaces for years on end instead of just giving them a quick injection or the guillotine.

This is the first thing you've written here that I can say I agree with.

You agree with that? Damn.

[Kristie]

The death penalty is a good thing. Why crowd the prison system and waste taxpayer money just so that you lock someone up for god so many years? Locking someone up for many years is a form of torture. It is much more humane to just kill them. All that you are doing is pro-longing the suffering by keeping them alive. There is nothing wrong with sentencing someone to death for serious crimes. They are a lost cause and it is highly illogical to confine them in small spaces for years on end instead of just giving them a quick injection or the guillotine.

This is the first thing you've written here that I can say I agree with.

[Meekychuppet]

I find it remarkable how enamoured America is with capital punishment.

[Kristie]

I find it remarkable how enamoured America is with capital punishment.

Not all of us. Just some of us.

[Meekychuppet]

As far as I am aware Capital Punishment has never solved crime problems, and murder rastes are higher in practicing countries. If that is the case then to be pro-capital punishment you must accept that you are happier to have more murder in your country in exchange for your punishment of choice. I cannot see how anyone can defend that position.

[Don't Panic]

The death penalty is a good thing. Why crowd the prison system and waste taxpayer money just so that you lock someone up for god so many years? Locking someone up for many years is a form of torture. It is much more humane to just kill them. All that you are doing is pro-longing the suffering by keeping them alive. There is nothing wrong with sentencing someone to death for serious crimes. They are a lost cause and it is highly illogical to confine them in small spaces for years on end instead of just giving them a quick injection or the guillotine.

This is the first thing you've written here that I can say I agree with.

You agree with that? Damn.

I been a long time supporter of capital punishment, the prison system is a drain on the economy.

[Meekychuppet]

The death penalty is a good thing. Why crowd the prison system and waste taxpayer money just so that you lock someone up for god so many years? Locking someone up for many years is a form of torture. It is much more humane to just kill them. All that you are doing is pro-longing the suffering by keeping them alive. There is nothing wrong with sentencing someone to death for serious crimes. They are a lost cause and it is highly illogical to confine them in small spaces for years on end instead of just giving them a quick injection or the guillotine.

This is the first thing you've written here that I can say I agree with.

You agree with that? Damn.

I been a long time supporter of capital punishment, the prison system is a drain on the economy.

Oh dear god, you said that out loud.

Can we get a few priorities straight? If you're making an economic argument then, leaving aside the fact that execution costs more than imprisonment, are you really telling me that this is the best assault you can make on the national debt? Do me a favour.

[Don't Panic]

The death penalty is a good thing. Why crowd the prison system and waste taxpayer money just so that you lock someone up for god so many years? Locking someone up for many years is a form of torture. It is much more humane to just kill them. All that you are doing is pro-longing the suffering by keeping them alive. There is nothing wrong with sentencing someone to death for serious crimes. They are a lost cause and it is highly illogical to confine them in small spaces for years on end instead of just giving them a quick injection or the guillotine.

This is the first thing you've written here that I can say I agree with.

You agree with that? Damn.

I been a long time supporter of capital punishment, the prison system is a drain on the economy.

Oh dear god, you said that out loud.

Can we get a few priorities straight? If you're making an economic argument then, leaving aside the fact that execution costs more than imprisonment, are you really telling me that this is the best assault you can make on the national debt? Do me a favour.

Not the only reason, but an effective one, you say capital punishment doesn't reduce crime rates, it certainly prevents the same person from committing that crime again, and the prisons are full of repeat offenders.

I don't care that you disagree with me, but no amount of education will alter a psychopathic or sociopathic personality.

[stripes4]

The economy? There are plenty of things that are a drain on the economy!!! Perfectly fit and healthy people that can't be bothered to work and claim social support, while others work to pay for their lives. Can we tackle that before we start killing people that may or may not be murderers? Animals kill instinctively in aggression and when protecting their young, or territory. We have evolved laws and systems and reason and communication and thought and justice and processes way over and above what animals have done. This is why we can't pick and choose, in my opinion, to be thinking creatures, but then to put that to one side and just tackle murder with more murder? We can do better, ffs. We have brainz?
I am also not promoting that we educate or socialise psychopaths and sociopaths. I was married to one long enough to know this is impossible, but the other option - to kill them is at best, lazy and unimaginative.

[Don't Panic]

I am also not promoting that we educate or socialise psychopaths and sociopaths. I was married to one long enough to know this is impossible, but the other option - to kill them is at best, lazy and unimaginative.

What would you suggest we do with them? It may be lazy and unimaginative but it's a permanent solution, at a low expense and makes society safer.

[mistermack]

I don't care that you disagree with me, but no amount of education will alter a psychopathic or sociopathic personality.

I don't think anybody has said it will.
But no amount of apologising will bring an innocent person back to life, once they've been executed.

[Meekychuppet]

Not the only reason, but an effective one, you say capital punishment doesn't reduce crime rates, it certainly prevents the same person from committing that crime again, and the prisons are full of repeat offenders.

I don't care that you disagree with me, but no amount of education will alter a psychopathic or sociopathic personality.

Using the 'offenders' is pointless when discussing capital crimes. Are the prisons full of repeat murderers? I doubt that very much. You've pretty much ignored what I said about higher murder rates in practicing countries and I have explained that capital punishment costs more than imprisonment. Your argument is patent nonsense.

[Coito ergo sum]

Errrr..... joos?

Au jus?

[Meekychuppet]

I am also not promoting that we educate or socialise psychopaths and sociopaths. I was married to one long enough to know this is impossible, but the other option - to kill them is at best, lazy and unimaginative.

What would you suggest we do with them? It may be lazy and unimaginative but it's a permanent solution, at a low expense and makes society safer.

You've been told twice that it doesn't make society safer. Capital crime rates are higher in practicing countries.

This is the problem I have encountered without fail in every proponent of CP I have ever met. They make arguments that are long since debunked and flatly refuse to accept the harsh reality that their beloved idea simply does not work.