Jacob Eberhart
25-06-2004, 03:21
Banning the death penalty is a good way to put the members of society who do more bad then good back on the streets to kill again. Whoops! My bad! There's another more expensive alternitive. Put them in jail at the government's expense, for the rest of their lives! An average cost of room and board for an inmate is enough to buy a car! Whould you rather expand the military, buy books for a school, or keep a cold-blooded killer in jail to "think about what he/she have done"? This is common sense! Just as you don't put your hand into a fire, or jump off a plane without a parachute, you should not take away the death penalty. The newspapers thrive on death penalties! Why take away their business for a bunch of liberal jibba-jabba! That's what banning the death penalty is! A bunch of nonsense, which nobody thought over before proposing. A word to the uber-liberal :roll: who thought this up. Look Before you leap!
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Ice Hockey Players
25-06-2004, 06:04
Again, a bunch of liberal-bashing fascist nonsense. Anything liberal is automatically deemed the work of Satan, and it's getting rather old.
I have a few reasons for banning the death penalty, not the least of which is that I am not about to execute one innocent man just to whack 99 guilty ones. I certainly wouldn't volunteer to be the one innocent man, nor would you, even as much of a "take one for the team" guy as I can often be. If you execute an innocent man, you screwed up permanently. You guessed wrong and blood is on your hands. By "you" I mean the state, of course. If the state keeps the innocent man locked up in a "life sentence", later discovering his innocence, all it has to do is release him and pay him something for his troubles.
Also, it brings up the issue of prison reform. It's high-priced to keep prisoners in prison because we don't do things right and because we lock up everyone in sight. Obviously that's a failing on society's part. The U.S. has an insane amount of people in prison per capita, and rest assured that not all of them are guilty or convicted of sentences that warrant going to jail or prison. I made a long post in General about prison reform that was largely overlooked, but I think I made a couple of good points. If the U.S. will undertake a little bit of reform, things will start heading in the right direction. Of course, that might involve either raising taxes (a "hell no" for a good number of Americans) or actually spending the money more wisely (gasp!), so it might be a little tough to pull off.
BTW, I think this should be moved to General.