Poll: Death Penalty - Yay or Nay

Should the death penalty be reinstated?

  • Yes

    Votes: 321 42.6%

  • No

    Votes: 432 57.4%
  • Total voters
    753
Malevolence said:
How about all the money saved from keeping scum that don't deserve to breath locked up in relative comfort? A bullet costs pence.
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A bullet costs pence, but sate sanctioned murder costs hundreds of millions.
California spent an average of $308 million per an execution.

Conversely it costs CA about $45K per prisoner per year, around $90-100K per year year cheaper than an inmate on death row.


So no, there really are no costs to be saved at all, quit the opposite.
 
captain dilbert said:
Should be brought back to execute the queen and the rest of the freeloading, murdering 'royal family'. Set a guillotine outside Buckingham palace, drag the bitch out and off with their heads.
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So you think it can't get much worse than the above post and this happens :eek:

captain dilbert said:
What about a homosexual man?
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We have ourselves the new OCUK Winner.
 
Dis86 said:
What the hell?!
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I think his point is that both homosexuality and paedophilia are both abnormal sexual attractions. Although we obviously recognise a distinction between the benign same sex relationships of consenting adults and the extremely damaging child sex abuse of sex offenders, the point remains, they are both still abnormal sexual attractions.

If we are going to string up people for being paedophiles, irrespective of whether they have acted on their abnormal attractions or not, why not string homosexuals? If that is what they mean, their logic is sound. Perhaps the person he responded to meant to say "child rapists" rather than pedos?

In any event people with an attraction to children are usually mentally ill. If they have never acted on their attraction, then by the norms of this society they deserve the same sort of help you'd give to anyone with a mental illness: drugs, counselling and whatnot.

Personally I'd be okay with stringing them up irrespective, but I've never claimed to be one of these soft liberal types. I'm allowed to say that without being a hypocrite.
 
Thompson_NCL said:
If we are going to string up people for being paedophiles, irrespective of whether they have acted on their abnormal attractions or not,
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I'm making a massive assumption here but I presumed the poster was on about paedo's who kill or even scar their victims for life.
It could also be argued that if they have 1000s of pictures/videos on their PC then they have aided the making of this filth.
 
{T5K}TT said:
The death penalty should be reinstated. I have no idea why people take the anti view. It seems to me that the anti-position is informed by a fundamental lack of respect for human life: The life of the innocent.
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Haven't you read this thread? Quite a few people explaining their reasoning, you might not agree with it but surely you can understand it?
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I'm making a massive assumption here but I presumed the poster was on about paedo's who kill or even scar their victims for life.
It could also be argued that if they have 1000s of pictures/videos on their PC then they have aided the making of this filth.
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If they had previously acted on their attraction and served their sentence, what then? People vilify those persons far more than most other criminal classes. We cannot pretend that most people in society wouldn't string them up.

Like I said, I'm playing devils advocate. I'm all in favour of purging the gene pool.
 
Greboth said:
Out of interest, for those saying no on the grounds of morality or because the state shouldn't kill someone, are you for or against assisted suicides?
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I'm against the death penalty but I am a big supporter of assisted suicides/euthanasia. But the two aren't even remotely the same other than the final destination.
 
{T5K}TT said:
So according to this kind of view, Peter Sutcliffe (The Yorkshire Ripper) might actually be innocent. Are you serious?
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He was deemed insane at the time, I've known someone that had a nervous breakdown that heard voices saying they were going to kill his family and he nearly acted on killing them more humanly than the voices were saying they would do. Would he have deserved the death penalty?
 
darreny said:
He was deemed insane at the time, I've known someone that had a nervous breakdown that heard voices saying they were going to kill his family and he nearly acted on killing them more humanly than the voices were saying they would do. Would he have deserved the death penalty?
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OK, what about Dale Cregan then? Do you really think that the tax-payer should be paying to keep that POS alive and looked after?
 
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