Death penalty

[Falcon]

Ok. Here's what I think. I am pro-death penalty, to a point. Here's my reasoning. The average innmate in a medium to high security prison costs around $44,000 per year. That's taxpayers money. And with over 2 Million Americans incarcarated in the prison system at any given time, that's a LOT of money. Those people are never going to be let out. They will never 'pull up their bootstraps', so to speak, and become a worthwhile member of the community. They will never hold a high paying or risky job, if they are in for life they will never get out, and so they rot away in Jail flushing money.

word. thats what i was gonna say, but you beat me to it.

and honestly, some people deserve death.

[Anticrombie0909]

and honestly, some people deserve death.

Amen.

[silverbloodedbob]

I think our legal system sucks. All the rich people get off cause they higher good lawyers and all the poor people get legally murdered. I think the only reason we have teh death penalty is cause EVERYONE IS CHRISTIAN! Its so annoying, they get everything they want (eye for and eye in this case) cause there are so many... its not fair, i wanna move.

[Anonymous]

"if everyone took an eye for an eye, the world would be blind"

[Anonymous]

I'd say I'm pro-death penalty, especially when the victims are children. I mean, it's disgusting when I hear on the news that a 3 or 4 year old was murdered. What I'm saying is that, is someone intentionally kills a child, they don't deserve to live. WHat did they ever do to diserve that fate?

Also, I've done some research on this subject a couple of years ago, and like Ambercrombie0909 said, it's cheaper to administor a leathal injection than to keep an an inmate alive for 20...30...40 years. Besides, there is already a problam with prison overpopulation. Erecting new prisons cost millions (possible slight exaggeration there).

With DNA testing and improved technology, the chance that an innocent person will be convicted dramatically decreases, the only exception being due to planted evidence, but that's a whole other animal.

[Kuzya]

Re: Death penalty

I don't like the legal system today.
Our judges would administer the death penalty with blindfolds and earplugs on.
And you just cannot say that some judges aren't racist. Even black ones. One time a thug robbed a store and got away with a couple hundreds, and got 7 years...
Then this high positioned person in the school system robbed millions from children, and guess what he got. Only 3 years!!!
Dude he robbed millions from CHILDREN and gets 3 years? while this guy robs a few hundreds from a quick stop grocery store and gets 7?!...LoL
and then they let him retire? wtf?
How ritcheous is our legal system?
As ritcheous as selling you a nickel for 1 trillion (wow? random?)



I'd like to make a shout-out to sly cooper...thanks for letting me borrow your fortune!

[Tasselfoot]

Re: Death penalty

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