Could you really

I couldn't bring myself to harm someone, to take a life...Unless something bad happened to someone I loved or a friend then I would muddle it over and possibly get worked up over it and then have the courage to do it through anger only but soon after I would have regrets and possbily alot of emotion problems from doing it, so I would rather not and just let someone else do it.

I doubt any of us truly know what we would be capable of in such a circumstance. For me it would be harder to actually follow thru if the victim wasn't someone I knew. However, if someone harmed my child or other loved one, then yes I'd have no problem dealing with them. My son knew from an early age that if anyone did him serious harm that I (or his father) would take care of that person - permanently. But I do believe in punishment. How many times have we let someone out of prison after they have served their time, only to have them do the same crime or worse over again? I say enough, go back to the old ways and toss a rope over a tree.

At first I was going to say no I couldn't do that , then I thought about it and YES if that person had done something horrendous to someone I loved then I COULD , but only in those circumstances pal xx

I don't think I could harm another person whatever they had done. Having said that, if it had been a member of my family who had been the victim, it ma make a difference.

I am not pro these kinds of punishment. I would never execute them either. To me this is pure revenge. I have no more the right to harm others than the criminals in question do. These punishments make a barbaric society, and I am glad I do not live in a country that performs them. They make us just as bad as the ciminal in my mind. It is not in keeping with human rights and makes the huan dignity less and less. People that are for these punishments scare me. Countries that do scare me even more.

pikefish I could not even say yes pull the plug on my dear husband when the doctors asked me, as I did not want to be the one who litterally was killing him. I asked his sister what to do that fateful day and she advised waiting at least til the next day. God took him home that same afternoon. So could I be the one to kill a criminal, no matter how heineous their 'crime. I hope people do not hate me for this but no I could not do it, put them in prison for life but dont make me kill them.Let God decide their fate not me.

I may who knows if the culprit has done some great harm to my dearest one and leers on my face without any remorse.Certain things have to be experienced personally whether those can be done by us or not.

In a perfect world, I would like all murderers to be locked up forever. No TV, no newspapers, no magazines, no visitors, no chances for an education in prison, no interviews, no chance of seeing daylight ever again. Too bad it is not a perfect world. In this world, innocent people are convicted of murder. The fact that innocents are convicted should bother everyone. It could be you, it could be me. But, for the convicted who are obviously guilty, then yes, I could end their lives. I could pull the switch, turn on the gas, or give them an injection. It would not bother me one little bit. What bothers me is our justice system. We allow murderers to be paroled, child molesters to be paroled - and we know that they will do it again. I believe in a fair and unbiased justice system, but we go way over the line with that. We allow them to live out their lives outside the cell, when at the least they should be serving life without the possibility of parole. It seems we bend over backwards to serve the guilty, while the victims have no justice. While this is true, then give me switch. I'm ready to serve.

If it would be someone that had really hurt my family or kids, yes, I would. I would even ask if I could do it, to make sure that person could never hurt another human being anymore.

There are specialists for everything one needs, was wrong with them doing it. They get pay for it, now you want to lay them off.

Yes, I believe I could. Almost all of the women in my family were molested by one man. It took some of us 30 years to get past it. Some have gaps in their memory that they will never regain. When someone like this is allowed to live, they rarely change. And so what if they do? Do they actually deserve another chance? Deserve it based on what? All they do is make more victims who have to find some way to live with it and find ways to trust again and have normal adult relationships later in life without those nightmares, night terrors, fears, and everything else that goes with healing. I can say yes because I keep my mind focused on what problems the next victim will have if that pervert is allowed to live. NOt angry with you - just vehement about the topic. If you've worked in law, one gets to see this type of stuff way too much.

if someone had abused my children when they were small or if someone was to abuse my grandchildre i'd chop their heads off if i could. no child deserves that & i think they should be punisj\hed in any extreme way u can imagine. could i do it. yes, ma'am or yes sir whichever u are.

Neither do it nor vote for having it done. Human justice must focus on two things: to prevent evil being done and to restore the perpetrator to human society. Let's give every attention to a better and more "humanizing" system of prison and rehabilitation, also for those who will have to spend the rest of their life there. Everything else must be called revenge and must be relegated to a more primitive time of humanity. The Bible itself shows us the difference between the Old Testament law of retaliation and the New Testament ethic of pardon and forgiveness.

I think i could do it,.. because i believe there are people who are very inappropriate to live. And it also impacts to other bandits, it will attract attention to many people so that they won't do any serious crime. And also it costs more economically than put them in jail..

Though I feel the kind of people need to be punished...I don't think I could be the one giving out the punishment. I wouldn't be able to do it....be it male or female. Even if all I had to do was push the switch, I don't think I would be able to do it.

It may not have been intentional, and it was while she was being attacked herself, but my roommate did castrate the man who attempted to attack and rape her. He had previously raped 4 other women, but he isn't going to rape anymore.

i don't think i could personally do it.as someone else said it would haunt me.i know at times when i have read a story where children have been murdered etc,i have said i would like to pull the switch on that person,but in reality i couldn't.cheers sue

I think that I could probably do it, if it was my job. I wouldn't choose to do it though. I do think if I did it, it would be something that would stay with me for the rest of my life.

Especially those who commit crime against children, I don't think I would hesitate to pull the switch or flex the knife. However, first of all, we have to be 100% sure that we have got the right culprit; wouldn't want to hang an innocent man/woman. I don't believe that these people cannot be reformed or rehabilitated; keeping them in prisons is just a waste of taxpayers' money. Plus the additional risk of the system setting them free to harm more children.

That's a good question. I hate dishing out punishment ...even to my own children. I hate for them to be punished. i much rather having them enjoying their lives. So, generally speaking, I probably would not be able to do it. But, I guess that's why we are all made different. Right? If a convict has harmed someone i dearly love, I'm sure it would be a lot easier.