If you were made judge

It would depend a lot on why they did it and whether I believed it would ever happen again. I wouldn't do it strictly for punishment but also for the protection of society. If I didn't believe there were any further danger to society, I would let them off a lot lighter than if I did believe they were a danger. But I wouldn't just let them go unless it was out and out self defense.

This is a hard situation to be put in. Reason I say this, the grief is still strong. One of the stages of grief is anger/hate, with that I wouldn't have a clear head to make the right decision. After my brother was murdered, and if I was given that choice. I believe I would have sentenced him to die, right then and there no questions asked. That's how powerful anger/hate is with the grieving process. I didn't get over that part until maybe 1-2 years later. Maybe then I would gave him life without parole. I wouldn't let him go free not even if I was given that choice today.

I would make him a lifer, to be put in a coupe alongwith a the hardest criminals on this earth. Top it up with rigorous prison work throughout the day and in the evening, hour-long sessions of solitary confinement with a tape recorder playing somewhere, accusing him again and again of murdering a person.

Call me a wanta be gangster but if I Knew who was the murderer of one of my loved ones, there wouldn't be a trial, I would kill them myself. I don't trust 12 of the perps " peers" to do the right thing.So to answer your question, if I were the judge, he/she would get the chair. Or better yet, a firing squad. But it all depends on if we Really have the right doer and not just the person the cops deemed as the doer.So before the sentencing, there has to be a DNA test.

Hi Winterose You have touched on a situation which almost did happen to my family a number of years back. Not to go into too much detail here, but my younger sister and brother were involved in a boating accident (along with 15 of their closest friends and family) and my sister was sadly killed. None of the other kids were killed, but most were injured fairly badly - some worse than others. A year later the case came to court and we had to attend. My father was ordered to give a testemony - which I didn't agree with, but what can you do. The poor man had been through enough! The charge was manslaughter and was being handed down by the police to the driver of the boat. It turns out that the chap who was driving the boat hadn't had the correct licence, but his girlfriend who had been with him did. At the time of the accident, he had been driving - so black mark 1 against him. My father, after listening to all the evidence, the fact that the driver - lets call him Alan, was 25 years old, would loose his job if he lost his boat licence, and could actually wind up in jail, seemed to soften Dad's heart towards him. When Dad was called to the stand he as good as told the judge that he felt 'Alan' had been punished enough and that he would have to live with the outcome of what had happened for the rest of his life. He thought this was punishment enough. Outcome of the trial was that Alan was given a suspended sentence and had to pay a fine, which he was allowed to pay off over some time since he couldn't afford to pay it in one lump sum. I think he took the fall for it, but his girlfriend and her father helped him to pay the fine since they had also been involved (it was his girlfriends fathers boat). Personally, I felt that Dad had been too soft. I don't mean that he should have sent him to jail or anything like that. It was an honest mistake which ended in tradgedy which nobody could have forseen. I do think that Dad should have laid a third party claim against the insurance company though - after all, my parents lost their youngest child! My decision? I think the sentence that was handed down was Ok for 'Alan', at least he got to carry on his life and it wasn't totally ruined by a horrible tradgedy. I guess he got enough punishment just by having to live with himself and always to have this in the back of his mind. But, I do feel that justice wasn't done to my parents. They just seemed to get no compensation for their loss. Horrible though it is to say, I guess I was feeling mercenary at the time and felt they should get something in compensation. Many years later now and we have all moved on and have put this horrible time behind us. Violetdreams

Hmm, a very tough decision. Perhaps i will forgive that person, considering if that person really has repented. But if he's not, and still showing much anger and hatred in him (well, if he's acting, well, i guess it's just your luck), i guess he's going to have to suffer the punishment then. Lots of possibilities to answer this question. Very subjective matter.

Wow, as much as the bible states and eye for an eye I don't think I could have the person killed even if that would be want I felt inside my heart. Because that wouldn't make me no different then the killer..I would want him to instead suffer.and make him spend the rest of his years in jail alone..to give him time to regret what he had done.Never to go outside to breathe in fresh air or have the sunshine land on his face and body like the person he murdered will never be able to see it again. So in a windowless cell he would remain to finish living out his days. No mail..no television,no visitors, no books except for the bible possibly. That may be cruel I know but what he did was crueler.

not hard for me to answer (gulity as charged)

I would give them life in prison, without the possibility of parole, then I would work on forgiving them.

Lifetime imprisonment. He deserves it. He may repent but he should do it in jail. The community can't afford to have another victim. This will become a cycle if he's released because some may follow his path thinking it's easy to get away with it. Lifetime imprisonment or equivalent to 20 years in jail would be fair. It's harder to lose a loved one than to put someone in jail especially if he's guilty of it.

I'd say I want to have them locked up in an extreme environment where even the wildest of lions can be tamed by the inmates. That way, he'll learn his lesson. He probably might even die there if he doesn't change his behavior. That way, he'll know that everything he does has a corresponding response whether from man or nature.

hi actually first i will think about that guy why he killed them.it who ever even my parents or my friends or my life partner because no one kills other person without any reason.first i will bring back all details about the wat relationship between them the victim and my beloved one.if any wrong from my side friends then i ill support to that victim who killed my beloved ones.If i think nothing bad with my beloved ones then i ill kill with my hands that victim....

he deserves to die !! he is a murder and he has to have his punishment !!

All i will say is for the judge to allow justice to prevail.He(the judge)should pronounce his verdict in tune with the law or laws of the land.