Y anyone on death row in the US is an animal and must be put down.
Death penalty Y/N? Please state your reasons
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I view the purpose of criminal justice as rehabilitation and protection of society from those who endanger it. Neither purpose is served by execution. Retribution is not a valid motive from the state's perspective.I do not view deterrence as a major component of criminal justice but even if I did I have not seen strong evidence of a deterrence effect (at least for capital crimes - it might prevent shoplifying) and I think enforcement likely to be more effective.
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Zvi Goffer a 34 year old hedge fund manager and one of Raj's minions was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison (ie no parole) for trading on inside information on upcoming mergers, which netted a billion dollar fund about $10 million. On what planet is his transgression comparable to a child rapist and murderer?
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N mainly because making a Type I error is worse than Type II error. Plus I can think of a dozen punishments worse than death...
Should this be the other way around?
Type I error= Fail to convict someone guilty.
Type II error= Convict wrongfully someone innocent.It's the type II errors, which will always exist, that make CP more problematic than life imprisonment.
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I believe that death penalty is smaller than a life-time imprisonment given that the prison is not in good conditions. Hence, I am opposed to good looking nice prisons. Because of this one side of me says that put the bastard in the prison for his life time. On the other hand, generally it happens that somehow due to political reasons or some other reason these guys can be free before they die. Also, presence of them fills the otherwise empty slots in the prisons which somehow implicitly enforces the authorities to (find a way to) release some of the prisoners earlier than it should be. Therefore, just kill the bastard and keep the society clean. But I should note that the death penalty should be given only under very clear evidence and big crimes such as killing someone intentionally in a planned way.
I always believe that anything that is not intentional or is accidental should either not be punished or the punishment should decrease to a minimal level.
Finally, who the **** I am and who the **** cares about my thoughts. This is another story...
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Guess I didn't state my reasons. I also believe that the primary purpose of criminal justice should be rehabilitation, but 1) some people cannot be rehabilitated, 2) the death penalty should always exist in a criminal's mind, even as a distant possibility, and 3) the worst crimes, by principle, deserve the worst punishment.
I consider the third point - retribution - to be the most important. The argument that "the executor becomes a killer himself" is an empty rhetorical trick IMO.
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yeah, how can you prove that 100%?
I could conspire and set you up for a heinous crime and all the evidence could point to you but it may just be the workings of a puppet-master.
Of course this is unlikely and probably only happens once every 100 years, but if someone wanted to and was sophisticated, they could pull it off.
Put your DNA at the crime scene, leave none of their own. Kill someone YOU had motive to kill, etc...
Scary thought...
I would be for death penalty for the most serious, heinous crimes IF it could be ABSOLUTELY 100% guaranteed that there is no Type 1 error in each case.
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Y Hells yeah!
I'd like to pull the switch, shoot the needle, kick the chair, fire the gun
where was the mercy for the victim in the first place?
anyone who says N, especially when there is incontrovertible evidence, is mentally weak and has a cold disregard for the victims and their families
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N. The guys who said Y are typical of their type, I think. Not too long ago they would have been the ones around the gallows salivating as the prisoner was hanged, and then gone home and screwed their wives silly because it gave them such a tremendous hard-on.
Retributive justice has no place in civilised societies. I disagree even with the guy who said "Prisons are bad enough places; let them suffer there". The prison system has to be drastically improved. I think what Norway has done is admirable: abolished the death penalty, made their prisons safe, clean, and, in a word, civilised.
For what it's worth, I'm not trolling.