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I can see how the death penalty is debatable in theory, but I don't see how anyone can support it in the reality of the world we live in. -- nm

Posted by Dano (aka dano) May 12 '10, 11:00

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I know Americans are loathe to do this, but I also look at the rest of the world and the company you keep in having the DP. - Reagen May 12, 11:17 3
- as far as things other countries don't do, I bet we dump the DP before we dump our non-metric system of measurement -- nm - crash davis May 12, 11:23
- Joiner. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 12, 11:23
- I don't think this argument can be made without pointing out the brutality and limited freedoms of prison and judicial systems in some of the other -- nm - 'enlightened' societies, including western ones. May 12, 11:20
Under strict application critiria, I can be supportive. - Name Withheld By Request May 12, 11:14 1
- I can be supportive of it in a much wider range. - Will Hunting May 12, 11:20
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- I'm all for the death penalty on paper. The problem is that you can't trust ANYone to be on the up and up anymore about anything. - Jim May 12, 11:13 2
  - if i can't believe in the state-sponsored murder of the right person, i don't know what to believe in anymore -- nm - sherlock homie May 12, 11:16
  - As if you ever could. -- nm - mara May 12, 11:15
Wait, what? That in today's society we should not have a death penalty? -- nm - JaxSean May 12, 11:08 7
- I'm saying that I don't believe our justice system is accurate/fair/etc. enough to be administering a death penalty at all. - Dano May 12, 11:11 5
  - I'd certainly say there's reasons to support it. If a mother kills her husband and drowns her kids, then admits to doing it, - JaxSean May 12, 11:16 4
    - How many innocent people is it okay to kill via the death penalty? -- nm - Dano May 12, 11:22 1
      - It's a tough argument to think about, but I'm okay living in a society where there is a handful of mistakes like this. - Name Withheld By Request May 12, 11:29
    - But would abolishing it create more of a problem? - Guigue May 12, 11:20 1
      - I don't think that person deserves to live, personally. It's the system that needs to be fixed, not the punishment, imo. -- nm - JaxSean May 12, 11:24
- The real-world application of it in today's world makes it harder to defend is my interpretation of Dano's comments. -- nm - Will Hunting May 12, 11:08
I'm always curious to see a defendant on a cop show give a lot of effort to avoid the death penalty when they're facing a certain life sentence. - Dr.Vermin May 12, 11:04 6
- Even in jail, you would be able to witness your children grow up at least tangentially. You wouldn't want that? -- nm - Dano May 12, 11:16 1
  - well, you'd also have to live every day with the realization of how you let them down ... -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 11:16
- Thinking about it in the abstract is probably not much like actually facing the probability of losing your life. -- nm - mara May 12, 11:14
- as long as you're alive you can appeal. -- nm - loosilu May 12, 11:06
- or you could hang yourself in your cell -- nm - CQ May 12, 11:06
- It's generally assumed that people will fight tooth and nail to stay alive ... -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 11:05
same here. If I were on a jury and they were looking for the death penalty, there is no way I could agree to it. Whom am I to decide if someone dies -- nm - CQ May 12, 11:02 6
- while I am personally against the death penalty, I don't know that I would refuse to sit on a jury where I might have to apply it. -- nm - znufrii May 12, 11:13 1
  - (of course, that's probably enough to get me kicked off the jury in any case) -- nm - znufrii May 12, 11:15
- I'm not sure that's what he's saying. - Will Hunting May 12, 11:06
- I think that would get you off the jury to begin with -- nm - Beryllium May 12, 11:03 2
  - sweetness -- nm - CQ May 12, 11:03
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