(9:47:40 PM) Anovis: Aglar! How could you be against Deathmatch Island, formally known as Australia?
(9:48:25 PM) SM_Adjudicator: "send them to Jepman's house"
(9:48:33 PM) Aglar: well, that's equally acceptable
(9:48:36 PM) Aglar: but I can only vote for one

Yes, but the process needs to be expediated so it doesn't take 30 years.

I think people should be put to death for just about everything.

Breaking into someones house and stealing their television set is WRONG. You don't just accidently do something like that. You should be killed for it.

It might take a few deaths, but I think criminals would get the idea and stop screwing around.

I'd also be open to the practice of cutting their hands off for stealing. The world would be a way better place if things worked like that.

I think the morality of a society can be measured by how it treats its least desirables (rather than how it can best reward its most desirable). In the European Union, there is no death penalty - capital punishment is fully abolished. There were quite a few archaic laws still punishable by death (treason and piracy were still theoretically punishable by death up until 1999) in Britain that were finally repeated by EU convention.
The lowest of the low, the most hated, the most feared, the most loathful members of society are still worthy of their most basic human right - life. I live in a society that values life so much that nothing you can do will deny you that right. There's something about that that makes me quite proud to be European.

http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/deathpenalty/deathpenhome.htm

Only in circumstances when, if kept incarcerated, they would still have the possibility of harming others/escaping.

All of the above accidents occur in institutions that are necessary for the continuation of society.

FINANCIAL FACTS ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY
• The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life.
Taxpayers have paid more than $250 million for each of the state’s executions. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005)
• In Kansas, the costs of capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-capital cases, including the costs of incarceration.
(Kansas Performance Audit Report, December 2003).
• In Indiana, the total costs of the death penalty exceed the complete costs of life without parole sentences by about 38%, assuming
that 20% of death sentences are overturned and reduced to life. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002).
• The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the
costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial level. (Duke University, May 1993).
• Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in
prison without parole. Based on the 44 executions Florida had carried out since 1976, that amounts to a cost of $24 million for each
execution. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000).
• In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at
the highest security level for 40 years. (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992).

Can't.... resist....



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