Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:41 pm  

One of the main arguments people use on here against the Death Penalty is the risk of the innocent being executed. What about when it's cut and dried - such as when the offenders post a You Tube video of themslves committing their crime? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... bbery.html Fair treatment or not?

One of the main arguments people use on here against the Death Penalty is the risk of the innocent being executed. What about when it's cut and dried - such as when the offenders post a You Tube video of themslves committing their crime? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... bbery.html Fair treatment or not?

Re: Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:15 pm  

Killing people for killing people is not a good argument.

Re: Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 6:33 pm  

Dally wrote:

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Fair treatment or not?

Barbaric.

I guess you think it's fine ?

Re: Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:47 pm  

Sharia law!

Good idea to follow Irans example, who killed the masked security guards?

Re: Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:50 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

Barbaric.

I guess you think it's fine ?

So it would not be OK to do the same to these Jihadists in Algeria?

Re: Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:00 pm  

If you're stupid enough to post a video of yourself committing armed robbery you're going to end up dead sooner or later anyway.

Re: Death Penalty : Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:32 pm  

Look at the comments. The Daily Mail demographic approves of Iranian justice.

Re: Death Penalty : Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:10 am  

Sheldon wrote:

who killed the masked security guards?

love it

Re: Death Penalty : Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:15 am  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Look at the comments. The Daily Mail demographic approves of Iranian justice.

The Daily Mail themselves seem to approve too, emphasising the hi-tech nature of the execution ceremony and how the criminals were "dead in seconds", its almost like they were promoting the gig.

Really ?

Its hi-tech to hoist someone up on a mobile crane ?

They die in seconds when you effectively strangle them to death ?

Is that why the "drop" method of hanging was in wide use when such things were more acceptable, because "the drop" made the death much slower and more painful, or was it the strangulation method of dispatching criminals that was deemed to be inhumane, I can't quite remember now, maybe The Daily Mail could do some research and let us know.

Re: Death Penalty : Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:50 am  

Sal Paradise wrote:

So it would not be OK to do the same to these Jihadists in Algeria?

The death penalty is obviously not a deterrent in such a case.
If you want to remove the offenders from society, imprisonment serves that purpose.
Which leaves punishment (aka revenge), which is emotion out of control.

The death penalty is a part of the cheapening of life, part of the downward spiral to acceptance of murder and violence as acceptable everyday occurrence (e.g. USA).
State-sponsored revenge murder makes us as bad, in some cases possibly worse, than the offenders.