Are you for or against capital punishment?

i believe capital punishment shud be there and used as rarely as possible

Wow! This is a controversial discussion. I used to feel that rapists and the like could be helped. Now I am not so sure. We all have heard about the attrocities, and I don't think his hanging should have been televised. I think that is a too violent irl thing. Especially for young children, should they view that either intentionally or accidentally. I don't know how I feel anymore. There are those that say if you are anti abortion you should be against capital punishment. I'm not sure I agree with that.

I have a major problem with this one! Usually I say I dont agree with it. Hanging, firing squad, electric chair, gas chamber, or beheading! The problem with all of them, is, if there is any mistake, any doubt that the person is innocent, and at a later date it is proved that they are innocent, you cannot bring them back!! Then we have people like:- Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Noriega (Panama), Milosevich (Bosnia) Idi Amin (Uganda) Just to name a few, these people just do not deserve (in my opinion) to live. Unless........... they go to prison for LIFE and I mean LIFE !!!

I have thought about this alot and it depends on the situation. I am for capital punishment. My daughter has to go everyday without her father and will never know him because when she was just a baby a man on a violent crime spree killed him and another man that day, and shot at other people before and after the other victims were only injured. So yeah I say fry the sons of B**ches.

I lost my husband to be several years ago to murder. The hatred i felt for his killer an the anger was so hard to live with. I wanted this person gone. I felt if my mans life could be taken without a second thought by this man why should he have the right to live. It was all so unfair. I wanted him gone. We don't have capital punishment in our country and at that time it really upset me. Then someone made a valid point. If the killer knows that he could die for what he has done would that make him think of hurting more people at the same time. Who knows how there twisted minds think.

think of it like this, you are an iraqi and your family was murdered by sadam. Many more in the thousands went missing because of him. He should have got the electric chair.

i am against

I'm against it but it got to be done to get those killers before the hurt more people.

I am against it, I think that life in prision is a better punishment. Capital punishment is too easy.

i am against capital punishment

I am against the Capital punishment in Saddam Hussein's case. You do not exactly know the internal affair of other countries... well.. you might not even know what's going on inside your country.. there's lots of secrets in the governments. In the Middle East.. I don't think Americans.. you.. or anyone should interfere their government and internal affair AT ALL. In my point of view.. in some cases, if Saddam was not cruel.. then the rebellions might arise and become very difficult to control. Not everyone has the same opinion and no one should be forced to think the same way. I personally think Democratic itself has LOTS of flaws, although a decent type of governing, and is not suitable for every countries. That's a lil' excerpt from my thoughts..

I'm against capital punishment, there's always the possibility of errors but even if the crime is proven 100% it's still hard to kill someone in revenge, life imprisonment is enough, let them die naturally and keep them away from the society that they are guilty against, executing a criminal will not bring life back to his victims and actually it never stops others from committing the same crime, even at the savage times when burning alive and horrible torture was legal punishment methods people continued to commit crimes.

No, certainly not, if the same thing would happen under iraqi process (completely) than the response shown by the whole world would be 50% less as compares to v see now a days

i personally am against it because i dont think we humans have a right to end someone elses life as we are not the ones who have given them life in the first place...a more severe punishment wld be to imprison them for life till they die...thats actually worse ...it can be done for ppl who commit such horrendous crimes.

I am against capital punishment. As no judiciary can be full proof after all humans do make error and simple because the number of people involved is greater we cant assume they will be right. Capital punishment should be banned... Forthright

Perfectly right madam and that too coming from you a US citizen is good enough. Hi, this is from New Delhi (India) and a Christian (RC) for that matter vinod_sailes@hotmail.com. I intend to deliberate on the Capital Punishment on a later occasion, but my comments will be directed at the Times of India website. The gyst of my contention would run like this. Court cases are piling up in plenty and decisions are loathe in coming, especially with money changing hands between witnesses and lawyers, justice oftentimes is not properly meted out the supposed victims. Connivance too by Lawyers for a gain either by way of collusion with the opponent Advocate or by extended court cases, the whole system is giving sleepless nights to victims (of both sides) who have to foot the bill and suffer the consequences. My point is, whereas I am totally against awarding of Capital punishment, I would crusade hard to eliminate this barbaric system of justice, my point is that a sentence should be earmarked for every crime committed by any individual. Say Capital Punishment for those committing premedicated crime with deliberate intent and so to say destroying the peace of humans (terrorists will fall in to this category), and similarly, a punishment of lifetime jail for similar offences, where the crime may not be premedicated or with deliberate motive (like flare up of anger and resultant crime etc) which can be condoned as an act of grievous mistake deserving a lesser sentence etc etc. The need to impart justice will then come in handy when the lawyer (it will need just one lawyer) who will argue for lessening of the verdict adducing grounds on which the accused may have slipped or faltered due to circumstances. This way, the extreme penalty will ultimately come to rest on either a life sentence or a minimum deterrent. This is my view.

Im against with it, we dont have the right to take others lives but HIM who created us. In this world, nobody is perfect. It's better for Saddam hussein to stay in the jail for the rest of his life until God's plans to get his life back to HIM. Evrybody deserves a chance and right to live.

Absolutely against capital punishment!! To kill someone for the his/her crimes will not give anything back to anyone.

i am deffinatly for capital punishment, but for only extreme cases in which the evidence is undeniable, of crimes such as mass murder or similar. crimes that would hold with them a huge jail sentance. why put them up in jails? why give them such an easy life, three meals a day, ways of earning money, learning options that most individuals dont get in the outside world! and after spending large amounts of time in jail you are most likely turned to a differant person, more than likely a person that the goverment hasnt tried to change you into, you are an educated, sometimes with money in pocket, with a huge chain of criminal friends which have mad and wild plans of what could be done if you had the knowledge and the funds, and what have you jsut came out with?

Against, ultimately. Even the most sadistic and brutal of criminals should be left to rot in prison, why give them the easy way out by killing them (usually humanely as well, unlike their victims...)