Be honest with me now, please. If someone murders another person with an ax, why shouldn't they be murdered with an ax as well? How can we consider time in prison with the possibility of release an equal or just punishment?

Of course, some people are so twisted that if they were in jail for say, rape, and they got raped as a punishment, it'd be no big deal. Why not allow the victim to choose what they feel would be equal punishment (within reason) in such cases? I know that this would be hard to accomplish, but wouldn't it be better than current punishments?

I hate to ask anyone to put aside religious answers, but this is not a religious discussion, so please don't get the thread locked for thumping, most people already know what The Bible teaches in this regard.

Also, you've undoubtedly heard that in some cultures, theft is punishable by cutting off the hands. Do you condone this? To me it seems a little extreme, one thing (the theft) is essentially impermanent, and the other (cutting off the hands) is permanent.

Does the whole idea of a plea-bargain not just make you livid?

Inquiring minds want to know...

 

Insanity plea? As bogus as it sounds, would an insane person deserve to be put to death? Most people probably feel that they would rather just keep these individuals restricted from the rest of society instead of dirting their own hands by killing them.

 

Stabbing to death with a spoon should be the new capital punishment. Lethal injection is way to easy on the convict physically but spoons on the other hand would really mess them up.

 

Such a harsh topic. S2kguy, did your car just get keyed or something?

 

Who's going to axe the axe murderer and what kind of mental state will they be in afterwards?

 

Parhaps we can keep 1 really good axe murderer around just for this purpose. Them we can equip him with a pager like a MD on call.

 

Who else?! Another Axe Murderer...naturally!

 

I thnk we should execute high profile prisoners on payperview durning the halftime of the super bowl. I would def pay 40 bucks to watch this

 

I suppose it depends on your view of the purpose of the criminal justice system. Assuming all are possible, do you want to rehabilitate, get revenge, deter or a combination of the above? We still have much to learn about human behaviour.

My simple answer would be if we want to send the message that something is wrong (ex. killing someone) then why should the state be allowed to do the same? Kind of along the lines of Do as I say, not what I do.

 

I like how this threadis turning out already .

ajkewler: Does it matter what their mental state was? Seriously, the crime was the crime, regardless of the mentality behind it, was it not?

mrmophandle: not at all, I have a friend that's a lawyer, we have this discussion all the time, I just wanted a new take on it.