Poll: Public Execution

[Laxman9292]

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.

easy solution, dont continue to investigate after the fact. once you commit to capital punishment you should be sure of your decision.
Capital punishment isnt nearly as costly as life in prison if done right, so im not sure where youre getting your facts from unless its the realm of make-believe. plus it isnt inhumane either, considering lethal injection is quick and relatively painless, even if it werent, they deserve it. Ineffective how? if i knew i could be killed for doing something illegal itd stop me. the only reason people dont think it is a deterrent is because the federally paid for attorneys know how to tie up the legal proceedings to make them last longer getting them employed for longer. killing is completely justifiable, what do you think war is? ok it will only make a martyr if we apply the death penalty for political and or religious crimes where martyrdom could be achieved. how many people are martyrs for dying for the right to wantonly rape others?

EDIT: apologies about the part about costs. i was thinking in an ideal situation where the legal proceedings arent tied up and the process is sped along. otherwise the cost gap decreases

 

[Asickorphan]

It would make life more interesig..maybe less murders and rapes..that`s good, right?

Or..you could sell tickets end end the economic crisis ^^

BTW, this is how problems should be solved:

ZOMG!!!! OWNED!!!!!!

 

[Tanfastic]

Not public but they should be fairly tried before and should have atleast a 3 year period before they get chopped.

 

[This-is-Hip-Hop]

Public execution creates no obedience in a free educated land, just rebellion and national distrust. For instance, remeber those photos, of two black men being hung from a tree? Im fairly certain these photos are contained in every Documentary about black civil rights. Did these promote quarreling feelings in your stomach? Did these photos make you see the error of the Souths past racism? They did for me, made me feel for anyone growing up black during that period. It made me thankful for the progress made in that period, made me realize that more work needs to be done.

I feel no urge to be forced into second hand citizenship, I feel no fear when looking at an attractive white woman, I don't address white men and women as 'Sir' and 'Madam'. Neither did my brothers going through these times. In short, public execution fails miserably, since I can marry a white woman in the south.

-This-is-Hip-Hop

 

[likalaruku]

When people are exicuted, they're kinda getting off easy. No time to rot in a cell to reflect on your moronic deeds.

If a man rapes a woman, there are 2 better punishments than death. He can either be castrated & then violated with a broom handle by his victims or their families, or he can just get raped by men in prison like they already do.

Sometimes 10 years ater a man is sent to jail for a hanous crime, modern detective technology prooves he had been innocent & framed, or was scapegoated because he was the only suspect. If he was exicuted, where's HIS democracy? (This seems poorly worded to me, but I'm going with it).

The idea of spending any amount of time in a dull jail cell with no privacy or internet is detterant enough for me.

I think we should get rid of the death penalty & exchange it for capital punishment.

 

[Echelon_3]

I think we should get rid of the death penalty & exchange it for capital punishment.

Are you familiar with the old robot saying, "DOES NOT COMPUTE"?

(Did you actually mean corporal punishment?)

 

[likalaruku]

Sometimes 10 years ater a man is sent to jail for a hanous crime, modern detective technology prooves he had been innocent & framed, or was scapegoated because he was the only suspect. If he was exicuted, where's HIS democracy? (This seems poorly worded to me, but I'm going with it).

You're right - this does occasionally happen.
However, if that were the case, wouldn't it be better for him to have been executed rather than, as you said, "raped by men in prison like they already do."

Those guys are usualy accused of murder. Prison-rape is just something inevitable.

 

[Deleted]

I actually want to see a persons last seconds of life. The soul leave the face, I have a weird fascination with it.

inb4theemo

 

[crudus]

I am all for the death penalty. I am all for public executions as well. I really don't care how it is done (a bullet is cheaper than Potassium Chloride!) but I would like to think we are above the gallows (no matter how ominous it sounds). There are so many problems with public execution though. For example, the convict could get away. I more think executions should be broadcasted on the news and just open to the public. Personally, I think it is just easier for the bailiff to shoot the defendant as soon as the jury reads the "guilty" verdict and just have rape and murder (certain degrees anyway) be auto-execution.

Yes. Because nothing says obey the law like a severed head on a spike.

Because that won't scar children for life.

 

[axia777]

Go to Saudi Arabia, and see the social barbarism that goes hand in hand with a justice system based on revenge and state-sponsored murder.

I do. Most American States still do conduct the death penalty.

Oh no, I don't mean someone sitting in a jail cell for 20 years, then getting a clean injection, that's not what you're talking about.

What you're talking about is someone getting led out of a jail the day after his trial, laid down in the dirt, and shot in the back of the head in front of a baying crowd.

If you operate your justice system based on the idea that there is nothing morally wrong with executing people, and that these people need to be executed for the good of society, then this is the kind of scene and mentality that you create.

And here we go. Around and around the circle goes. We have the anti-death penalty people and the pro-death penalty people. See? I am never going to agree with you and I really doubt you will ever agree with me. So I am lot of this thread as it is totally pointless. We can agree to disagree. Good day to you all, at least in this thread.

 

[Margrave Rinstock]

Definately. It would be a grand detterent.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Personally, I think it is just easier for the bailiff to shoot the defendant as soon as the jury reads the "guilty" verdict and just have rape and murder (certain degrees anyway) be auto-execution.

"What's that? He was innocent? Well shit."

Seriously, how can you even think that is a good idea?

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.

Eye for an Eye is a terrible justice system. For example, what if a homeless person steals food from a store? How does an eye for an eye deal with that? You can't take anything from the homeless man, as he has nothing already. And in your scenario, who the hell would we have raping the prisoners? Some guy who's job it is to rape people all day? Or another prisoner, but if that's the case then what gives that prisoner the right to rape others without having to face the consequences?

 

[crudus]

Personally, I think it is just easier for the bailiff to shoot the defendant as soon as the jury reads the "guilty" verdict and just have rape and murder (certain degrees anyway) be auto-execution.

"What's that? He was innocent? Well shit."

Seriously, how can you even think that is a good idea?

Are you picturing the defendant at gun point with the finger on the trigger? If so, then we are imagining two different things because I agree that is a terrible idea(the bailiff could miss and hit a lawyer or someone who doesn't deserve it). Besides, that would get blood on the carpet in the nice court rooms. I more imagined they had a room for it.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Personally, I think it is just easier for the bailiff to shoot the defendant as soon as the jury reads the "guilty" verdict and just have rape and murder (certain degrees anyway) be auto-execution.

"What's that? He was innocent? Well shit."

Seriously, how can you even think that is a good idea?

Are you picturing the defendant at gun point with the finger on the trigger? If so, then we are imagining two different things because I agree that is a terrible idea(the bailiff could miss and hit a lawyer or someone who doesn't deserve it). Besides, that would get blood on the carpet in the nice court rooms. I more imagined they had a room for it.

No, I'm talking about the major flaw of the death penalty in general. That someone can be proven innocent after you have killed them.

 

[tsb247]

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.

I agree whole-heartedly. Why do we just keep people like that around? What does it actually accomplish to just have buildings fill up with rapists and murders that will never amount to anything in life? Bullets are FAR cheaper than a lifetime of meals, clothes, sheets, plumbing, cable TV, and recreation equipment.

EDIT: However, there had better be near 100% certainty that they are guilty of the crimes of which they were accused!!!!!!!!!

 

[obliterate]

People are bloodthirsty and evil creatures...at least a lot of them are...it's better not to satisfy their needs by making these public executions

 

[Captain Bork]

why waste money on a guys life sentance? you kill him, you save money, time, put somthing interesting on tv, and remove one more idiot from our already @#%^&% up planet. the less there are the better.

 

[JoshGod]

someone said people will argue over if its humane or not.
well was it humane when they commited the crime?
so if evidence is undiable full proof go for it.