The Death Penalty, Schwarzenegger and Court TV movie

[tflon]

[teufelhunden]

There's an acceptable percentage of error for everything.

[OysterBoy]

Until your the one convicted of a crime you didn't commit.

[arsonpaintball06]

join the rest of the world in a more humane approach? do you realize wat punishments are in alot of other countries? i think if anything some of the rest of the world needs to adapt one more like us. im not saying ours has no problems, but we dont cut of peoples hands if they steal

[OysterBoy]

join the rest of the world in a more humane approach? do you realize wat punishments are in alot of other countries? i think if anything some of the rest of the world needs to adapt one more like us. im not saying ours has no problems, but we dont cut of peoples hands if they steal

I wouldn't count third world countries kthxbye.

[JoshK]

join the rest of the world in a more humane approach? do you realize wat punishments are in alot of other countries? i think if anything some of the rest of the world needs to adapt one more like us. im not saying ours has no problems, but we dont cut of peoples hands if they steal

I agree with this one.

[OysterBoy]

The nations that do that aren't even on the same page as you / we are.

[Buff]

anybody else notice this is this guys first post?

anyways, before anyone gets exocuted, they always go through every possible thing to stop it........and they still are guilty afterwards..........

so....

[Gitaroo Man]

You can't really compare us to those countries....like he said we're not even on the same page as them

[CaptaiN_JacK]

What is worse, putting an innocent man to death for a crime he didn't commit

or

Putting an innocent man in prison for a crim he didn't commit for life without the chance of parole?

I for one choose the second, and like teufelhunden said, there is an acceptable range of error for everything (wow, that makes me sound like such a cold-hearted bastard)

[OysterBoy]

I disagree; a human life is not a statistic, nor should it ever be classed as one.

[teufelhunden]

I disagree; a human life is not a statistic, nor should it ever be classed as one.

10 million killed in the holocaust.
225k killed in the Asian Tsunami.
6.5 billion people.
First execution in CA in three years.
20% of the world's population in china.


Human life is a statistic.

[JoshK]

10 million killed in the holocaust.
225k killed in the Asian Tsunami.
6.5 billion people.
First execution in CA in three years.
20% of the world's population in china.


Human life is a statistic.

Really makes you think. Expecially since most of those people are innocent...and this one person (if you are talking about the person im thinking of) is guilty.

[White_Noise]

i know ill catch some flak for this one. But personally, i beileve we should have some of the same penalties as the rest of the world. It's kinda hard to steal stuff again if youre missing a hand. If this country had harsher punishments, there would be far less crime. our punishments are like a slap on the wrist compared to other countries' methods.

on that note: for the death penalty, i believe that if 2 or more eye witnesses testify against the person, or there is substantial DNA evidence that the person should be executed immediately. Life without parole would be for those cases where such evidence could not be presented, but the person is still found guilty. The death penalty would be still used in other cases, but the defendant could have a chance to appeal in some cases.

example of why this works: i bet the kid from america who spray painted on cars in sinnapore(sp) back in the early 90's will be doing any more spray painting considering he got canned for it.

[JoshK]

example of why this works: i bet the kid from america who spray painted on cars in sinnapore(sp) back in the early 90's will be doing any more spray painting considering he got canned for it.

I remember that. But the whole problem is that the consitution says no harsh or unusuall punishment. Also I heard that killing someone is more expensive...because they take it to court as much as they can and that is really expensive.