I feel that the family of the victims should have the decision. Although I must say that of course prison sucks but once people are there for so many years it becomes their way of life and even though it is so much different then ours I feel that it just becomes routine and they dont suffer much once they get use to it. If someone killed one of my family memebers I would want them to be in prison for about 10 years then be executed.

Yeah, it is a touchy subject. Some cases (like this) I believe that it should be permitted. If he were really retarted that why would his parents give him the oprotunity to be alone with 2 girls for that long of a period of time? But like you said, if it were one of my family members I dont know what I would do..

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gaby

Yeah that sounds good. Let em rot in the cells about to go crazy and then kill em. See the vicitms family in the show , went on national television asking that the boy not be executed. Actually it was the victims mother. The 2 girls he killed were cousins so from the same family. Anyhow, she said he was just being a stupid 16 year old. I was like what is wrong with your head lady?!?!?! If that was the case and we blamed stupidity, noone would ever go to jail or be repremanded.

I love the court tv show. My bf says I should be a detective lol I seen this one show where a doc was raping his patients and he knew they were gonna tell on him right? Well whenever he owuld get tested for dna, there were never any matches. How was he getting away with this? Alright its sick but anyway he would save blood from other patients and he would surgicly implant a small tube inside of his arms you know where they usually take blood from? And they had his other patients blood in it!!! How sneaky and disgusting might I add. He got busted when a nurse knew it wasnt a vein lol and they had him inspected. Insane. Insane I tell you. ~ erica.

I am for it in extreme cases only but I think all paedophiles should be hung,drawn & quartered.If anyone messed with any of my kids they'd pay for it

Oooooo erica, you went there with this one!

Lol

i am 100% for the death penalty, especially in sexual accault cases and serial mur ders. My sis's killer had a long record of sexual assaults and such. He had many run in with the cops was was always let go. It's a proven fact that sex offenders and people with sexual deviences in their past cannot be rehabilitated and yet they are released from prisons every day.

Two examples: the dru s. Case. The girls body was just found....Her killer: repeat sex offender
my sis-in-law's case: her killer a repeat sex offender and had lots of run-in's with the cops.......Killed her and 3 other girls.


The death penalty is 100% a good thing and should never, ever be taken out of any state! Because the way I look at it, you cannot rehabilitate them.... You cannot let these people back out.....And yet, I only pointed to one group, "sex offenders" there are millions of others who deserve to die with the death penalty! Only problem with it???? It's not violent enough for them!

I wanna see these freaks fry!

Fav quotes (you know I got quotes for everything!!!!):

"if we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murd erers."
-- alphonse karr (1808-1890)

"if we execute murde rers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murd erers. If we fail to execute murde rers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other mur ders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call."
john mcadams - marquette university/department of political science, on deterrence

"if we design a legal system that will be so generous to the suspect that there is absolutely no possibility of unjustly convicting that one out of ten thousand defendants who, in spite of overwhelming evidence, is really innocent, then we have also designed a legal system that is utterly incapable of convicting the other 9999 about whose guilt there is no mistake."
-- g. Edward griffin in the great prison break

“it's because I have so much regard for human life that I favor capital punishment. homicide is the most terrible crime there is. Anything less than the death penalty is an insult to the victim and society. It says…that we don't value the victim's life enough to punish the killer fully."
- mike royko

It depends erica on the law in the state, there are only a handful of states that will allow the execution of someone who is mentally handicapped, its been some time since i've taken my law class so I dont know off the top of my head. The death penalty is so expensive to uphold it costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year per deathrow inmate. And now with new technology, 88 people have been cleared from deathrow. About 30-40 have been wrongly executed and those numbers make me very nervous. In my opinion death penalty is giving that person an easy way out. They are killed in a humane way as their victims (usually homicide) usually suffered. I dont know its a loaded issue......But interesting

meg

I agree with jill exactly~

In my opinion.... The death penalty is to too easy... And prison is too easy... They should invent some kind of like huge prison with solitary torture chambers and feed them mush on a napkin with no forks or anything.... And have water dripping constantly (but like fountains lol as not to waste any water!!) and have some kind of tape recordings they should listen to... And they should be in the dark for 23 hours out of the day and then for one hour bright light shone on them with a huge water hose spraying them and air conditioners turned on like full force... Or just let it be like a freezer... But not cold enough to get hypothermia... Just enough to make you crazy... And periodiotic visits from bubba... Just my opinion... Both prison and the death penalty are too leinant for some...

Well, you have a point, but the justice system would never let anything like that exist so I feel that the death penalty is good for now! Prison is a vacation! That's all it is!

I totally agree with gypy the death penalty and prison is too easy.

Chanda~i dont mean to be nosey but do you have a link or something with an artical about your sisters murderer? He is such a terrible person! He is getting death right?