Poll: Public Execution

[MaskedMori]

I answered "Yes", but I think it should be based upon the severity of the crime... Public executions could be for the heavy ones, or maybe when the crime rate gets out of hand. Somtimes people need an example.

 

[xXZer0]

If its obvious that no one wants that guy alive then i guess so. Then again they should do an eye for and eye so if someone is a rapists they should get raped.

 

[OsirisArisen]

A point: lets ignore the possibility of an innocent for now and imagine the person we have is the culprit.

Said culprit is helpless and harmless to the population at large, being in custody. How is killing this person protecting anyone, when they are no longer a threat?

Well, taking the assumption further and ruling out all possibility of parole and escape, there is still the argument that holding a prisoner for life is an unfair burden on the tax payer. And since there is no perfect system of justice or imprisonment, the point is moot.

 

[PiCroft]

A point: lets ignore the possibility of an innocent for now and imagine the person we have is the culprit.

Said culprit is helpless and harmless to the population at large, being in custody. How is killing this person protecting anyone, when they are no longer a threat?

Well, taking the assumption further and ruling out all possibility of parole and escape, there is still the argument that holding a prisoner for life is an unfair burden on the tax payer. And since there is no perfect system of justice or imprisonment, the point is moot.

In this case it would be the question of what do you think is of greater relevance; the possibility of innocents being killed, or a tax burden.

I don't think its an invalid concern, just to me doesn't seem to weigh up against the idea of putting innocents at risk.

 

[Xanadu84]

Even excluding the massive number of things that make Capital Punishment reprehensible, ineffective, costly, inhumane, and just plain dumb, Public executions will do 4 things. 1) Make Martyr 2) Tell the world that killing people is acceptable if you think you have a good reason. 3) Inhumane pain and suffering on the families of the executed 4) Be seen as a truly egregious miscarriage of justice when someone publicly executed is later exonerated.

Your first 2 points make good sense.

3) Yes because the families of the raped/murder feel less pain than the family of the person who murdered somebody.

4) Yes and somebody who has been behind bars for 20 years exonerated is such an improvment.

3)Of course they don't, that's facetious and you know it. But the murderers family are still, in fact, human beings, and its entirely possible that they arn't evil bastards. Regardless of if you feel that Capital Punishment is worthwhile, Public Executions would be absolute hell on the family of the person executed, above and beyond the strain already placed on them for having a family member executed. And that hell on a family would have absolutely no bearing on the victims family, unless the victims family enjoys to see other families suffer. So that counterpoint is entirely moot.

4) Hell yeah it's an improvement! They lost 20 years of there life, as opposed to all. It's still terrible, certainly, but at at least they have a life to try to redeem. Besides, its not necessarily going to be 20 years. The outrage against a wrongful imprisonment would be pretty bad, but the outcry against state sanctioned murder of an innocent man through a public execution would be absolute chaos.

 

[Nevar18]

public might be given to a serial killer/rapist who has had at least a year of 'terrorizing' the public.

private executions for the less heinous acts of violence/sexual assault (but still rather evil).

anything less than that would be jail time.

I think that's what I was thinking...?

 

[brewbeard]

I'm surprised so many people are in favor of this.

 

[Julianking93]

I didn't know they still did public executions.

 

[LockHeart]

I'm surprised so many people are in favor of this.

It's confusing, the Escapist can sometimes be a very liberal place, but also draconian. I think a case study may be in order...

 

[Twilight_guy]

No. The death penalty is wrong. Not only that but public executions seem to undermine the concept of dignity. I can just image people sitting around eating popcorn in lawn chairs as some poor schmuck gets executed.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

I posted yes.
But I'd do in a certain way.
If you are in prison for rape or murder, you are forced to watch your fellow rapists or murderers die. And none of that black hood crap, it needs to be gruesome.
These men need to be put through hell. Especially if they aren't getting out.
In my opinion, there's no point in treating a rapist in a humane and respectful manner.

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

go ahead and hang some one who is said to be guilty, but then what if they turn out innocent? the system is corrupt, therefore anyone is able to get anyone executed legally...cops who have a perfectly good reason to kill some one and do suffer from that moment from the memories. execution is barbaric and we have left those times behind us, leave them where they belong

Edit: if anyone has seen the terrorist execution videos, execution is bassically that, I watched one a few years ago and i still remember the horror of that and the immage is locked in my mind, and i consider my self to be able to stand most things...

 

[Stalk3rchief]

No. The death penalty is wrong. Not only that but public executions seem to undermine the concept of dignity. I can just image people sitting around eating popcorn in lawn chairs as some poor schmuck gets executed.

Your talking about people that have raped and killed other human beings, a lot of men that get the death penalty have raped little girls and killed babies.
You think people like deserve any dignity?
You would protect these people?
Personally, I'd be in the front row sharing my popcorn with everyone else.

 

[Twilight_guy]

No. The death penalty is wrong. Not only that but public executions seem to undermine the concept of dignity. I can just image people sitting around eating popcorn in lawn chairs as some poor schmuck gets executed.

Your talking about people that have raped and killed other human beings, a lot of men that get the death penalty have raped little girls and killed babies.
You think people like deserve any dignity?
You would protect these people?
Personally, I'd be in the front row sharing my popcorn with everyone else.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

 

[Stalk3rchief]

No. The death penalty is wrong. Not only that but public executions seem to undermine the concept of dignity. I can just image people sitting around eating popcorn in lawn chairs as some poor schmuck gets executed.

Your talking about people that have raped and killed other human beings, a lot of men that get the death penalty have raped little girls and killed babies.
You think people like deserve any dignity?
You would protect these people?
Personally, I'd be in the front row sharing my popcorn with everyone else.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

Only a simple minded person would think that makes sense.
Someone takes my eye, I take there eye.
I'm pretty sure we each still have one eye.
Look ,I'm just surprised that someone would actually forgive someone who, say, kidnapped a little girl, tortured her, raped her several times, and then killed her and dumped her body in a quarry.
People like do not deserve to live among his fellow man. And seeing as how the prison system, in overflowing, it's about time we destroyed these people and any threat they show towards society.
We'll see how your 'turn the other cheek' lifestyle works when some attacks someone your close to, or even you personally.

 

[JWAN]

I wish it would.
A single bullet to the dome = about 25 cents.

Years and Years of keeping a convicted child rapist or murder = $232.7 million per year. (in ONE state!)

I think its pretty obvious.

^ this is what Ive been saying for years
or make them walk through an antitank minefield only the mines have had the pressure sensors lightened up to 30 pounds

Could I witness a private public execution?

 

[A random person]

Oh god no. Please, not another one of these. We are not mature enough as a community to discuss certain topics apparently.

And my answer is: Hell Fucking No. In fact, it makes me think less of you as a person if you think we should do public executions. It means that you get a kick out of it and are no better than the person you're supposedly punishing.

Agreed on both. Revenge is a stupid thing to base your justice system on, and I can't possibly agree with you enough on our community. We claim to be mature and rational, but we go absolutely bloodthirsty on threads about certain crimes and the death penalty.

You know what, for showing yourselves to be wiser and more mature than most posters here, you and Internet Kraken are allowed aboard my floating doom fortress, where we'll feast and crap on Public Enemies.

 

[sizzle949]

Personally, I'm very much against the death penalty. I believe it to be archaic and barbaric. But seriously, the idea of a public execution is just plain sickening. The idea that so many people would be willing to run up to watch another human being (even one who did commit such crimes as murder and rape) is just plain scary. I found that the Penn and Teller: Bullshit episode on the death penalty explains my opinion nicely. I especially like the line on how even before you can accept all the different arguments about how the death penalty is a deterrent effect and cost effective, the first thing you have to accept is that it is alright to kill a human being. And I honestly cannot (yes I probably would kill in self defence and all that jazz, but I wouldn't think it right and justified regardless)

And with public executions, how far till we get back to the same idea of how Nazi Germany did it, just shoot them on the spot where you find them.