Capital punishment. Do you guess is legitimate?

@pierone (1894)
Italy
November 22, 2008 9:53am CST
The capital punishment is something really controversial. Some countries use it, some other not. Lot of people, as well as organizations protests against the capital punishment calling it "authorized murder", other claims it's the right punishment for certain crimes. What do you think about that?
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23 Nov 08
I don't have a moral problem with executing murderers, but I am opposed to capital punishment on the practical grounds that no-one has ever devised a perfect judicial system. Mistakes get made and sometimes people are wrongly convicted. If you send someone to jail and find out that a mistake's been made, you can always let them out - but if you've executed them, there's nothing you can do about it.
@gyramary (152)
• Italy
23 Nov 08
Hi, i guess nobody have the right to kill another person, also if they call this "justice". For my opinion Justice should be something that give a punishment, as well as the possibility to turn into a right way to live.
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• Italy
6 Dec 08
i'm agree with you, gyramary, capital punishment is not justice, is just a revenge. And what we need is a justice that well work, not just a form of revenge
@pierone (1894)
• Italy
1 Feb 09
Well, sometimes i read about some crimes that really let me think.... revenge could be a kind of justice in this case....
• Italy
23 Nov 08
I'm disagree with capital punishment, I guess jail is a punishment, and maybe can change the people, capital punishment is just a revenge. Something that sounds like medieval. And more, in some countries they kill the people after years, maybe 10 or 15... is just a torture. If you decided for a capital punishment why you want torture that man, letting him live without know every day if he will have another day of life or not? That's the most horrible thing you can do to anyone, no matter what's his guilty, that's an horror, and a civil society can't do that.
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@pierone (1894)
• Italy
17 Dec 08
I got your point of view, riccinyco, and i'm almost agree with you. I'm not agree with capital punishment, and you're right, let pass so many time between the judgment and the execution of the punishment is something orrible, a real torture. No country that claim itself "civil" should do that.