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Post by The Italian Dragon on Mar 12, 2009 6:47:36 GMT -5
I look also on internet to get more precise info. Helps a lot wehn you're a book writer like meh Anyways we're going off-topic so let's stay on the topic 'kay ?
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 12, 2009 7:21:03 GMT -5
We? Oh lawd.
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Post by spyder on Mar 12, 2009 8:25:53 GMT -5
I've never been a fan of the death penalty. Mainly because the majority of people who are sentenced to capital punishment have commited murder or been in possession of potentially life threatening substances. Basically, there subjected to some kind of one life for another ratio in which their punishment, for murdering, or endangering lives, is being killed. Hypocritical, much?
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." - Ghandi
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 12, 2009 22:53:56 GMT -5
But the death penalty can send out a message like 'from now on you people screw up and it's the last mistake you will ever make!' Which could set alot of drug dealers straight or whatever. Not the ones that are truly in there but the ones are'nt as 'big'.
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Post by spyder on Mar 13, 2009 18:42:22 GMT -5
And sending someone to prison for life doesn't send out that message? There are other ways that that message can still be sent out and they don't involve loping someone's head off.
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Post by YFWE on Mar 13, 2009 19:59:40 GMT -5
Only drawback is the overcrowding of prisons.
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Post by The Italian Dragon on Mar 13, 2009 21:05:50 GMT -5
Yeah, YFWE's right. In France in one prison there's supposed to be around 1500 detenus. Well in the reality they're over 5000( between 3 to 7 by cell 8( .Death sentence can help with these situations.
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Post by Atecom on Mar 14, 2009 5:04:21 GMT -5
Only drawback is the overcrowding of prisons. What percentage of people in America who go to prison get death sentence? I wouldn't imagine very many and killing off people just to fuit more people in prison is sorta a wierd idea as well.
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Post by The Italian Dragon on Mar 14, 2009 6:18:10 GMT -5
^ true but it can help abit almost. You should see how are prisons in France. Same as in Africa or whatever...
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 14, 2009 6:23:52 GMT -5
We have the death sentence to get rid of wastes of space. Not so we don't overcrowd prisons (although it does help)
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Post by YFWE on Mar 14, 2009 10:44:30 GMT -5
Only drawback is the overcrowding of prisons. What percentage of people in America who go to prison get death sentence? I wouldn't imagine very many and killing off people just to fuit more people in prison is sorta a wierd idea as well. A good amount, don't want to actually look up the percentage because I don't actually care enough, but generally people get put on 'death row' for years and years before they actually die; some die in prison before they even make it to be executed. Combine this with the fact that, at least in the US, there are too many people being sent to prison as it is, you get major overcrowding. It's been a problem around here for years.
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Post by spyder on Mar 14, 2009 18:26:19 GMT -5
We have the death sentence to get rid of wastes of space. The irony of you saying that is that a lot of people who do get the death penalty are only young and have their whole lives ahead of them. I can see what the real waste is there. And as for overcrowded prisons, I think they're a pretty poor justification for taking someone's life. Living in those kind of conditions could just be part of the person's punishment who commiting their crime. I mean, my understanding of prison was that you weren't exactly going there to get comfortable and have a good time.
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Post by lildevil92 on Mar 14, 2009 20:13:05 GMT -5
^ I'm pretty sure they have poker nights in prison. =D
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Post by The New Zealand Dragon on Mar 14, 2009 20:13:22 GMT -5
Waiting on death row for years is like a form of torture wondering everyday for 5 years wondering if you are going to die. But in prisons over here so many inmates go on rampages and kill other inmates. Someone stabbed someone then began to skin them when the guards arrived.
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Post by YFWE on Mar 14, 2009 20:14:06 GMT -5
It's not the conditions, it's the fact that there are becoming too many people in each prison, which means that more prisons must be built. Maybe you'd enjoy a place where there was a prison every ten miles, but I sure wouldn't. Of course, even IF the death penalty was abolished in the US, we'd still have the overcrowding problem, since our police force sends far too many people to prison as is.
So I foresee it as a pretty viable justification. If you don't, clearly you've never been in an area where overcrowding is such a problem and in which they're constantly calling to built more and more prisons.
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