Eh? And keeping highly dangerous individuals in maximum security prisons for the rest of their lives (potentially 70+ years) isn't?


So at this time I thought it might be interesting to throw something recent out there...

Andreas Brevik, Bombs an office block in Oslo killing (6? I think) to distract police, then travels to the teenager's holiday camp dressed as a police officer with the sole intention of slaughtering as many innocent civilians as humanly possible. He does this, gunning them down as they flee in terror, over 70 dead and dosens more injured. Later claims it was 'unfortunate but necessary', has links to Right Wing extremist groups and claims his actions were a protest against the 'Islamification' of Europe and he was acting in the name of Christianity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14363671

He pleads guilty to all charges and shows no remorse for his actions.

Death Penalty?

There's no logical reason to have a death penalty other than people's want for someone to suffer because they have. People say that it costs good taxpayer's money to keep jails and criminals secure. But it costs a huge amount more to even have the death penalty on the table in a case, as opposed to a case where its not being considered; and thats regardless of whether or not there's a conviction. Of course theres always the possibility of a wrongful conviction and it has happened. People seem to forget that the point of imprisoning criminals and punishing them is to keep others safe, deter others from committing the crime, and for them to be rehabilitated, not for us to feel some sense of having gotten one over on them. My own personal opinion is that a legal execution is nothing more than a hit with a seal of approval.

That isnt really fair.. We show that if you go around killing innocent people and show no remorse, you have lost your right to be a human being.

k, cool story bro.

Blatantly, the death penalty doesn't feel correct.

It's easier to die than to live. Once your dead you don't feel anything. When your alive you have time to reminisce amongst what you have done and hopefully be rehabilitated to enter society some day.

Also every justice system has flaws and having an innocent person executed seems to be the perfect crime. Who is going to listen to someone without a voice?

Death penalty - Illegal in every case. I think it's morally reprehensible. No matter how heinous the crime, let them rot in prison instead. Besides, no matter how small the risk, the possibility existing of executing an innocent person is sickening to me. Also, it has proven to NOT be an effective deterrent for crime.
Marijuana - Legalise and regulate it.
Prostitution - Legalise and regulate it. For both this and marijuana, why? Keep money out of criminals. Collect taxes. And people are going to do it anyway, so if we can legalise it and regulate it is much safer. In some countries prostitution is legal so long as it is in houses, and of course being a registered profession they do things like checking for STDs, making sure the escorts aren't being beaten up by pimps (who are now out of a profession). And with marijuana, people don't have to deal with drug dealers, and the act of smoking it itself is no longer illegal - just the ramification from doing so, as for alcohol. E.g. big penalties for DUI marijuana etc. For the record, I have never used marijuana or elicited services from a prostitute lol...
Teaching intelligent design - Don't teach it. Teach science. Intelligent design is a religious theory, plain and simple, learn it in church or Sunday school (this coming from a guy who grew up a strict Catholic). Separation of church and state. Besides, we don't teach Buddhist or Hindu views of how the world was created. The only place I see the theory being allowed to be taught is under a student-chosen (not forced) religious education course, where it must be taught as a THEORY.

Zion, I want to join you in this debate of death penalties, right, an eye for an eye. Some crimes deserves the death penalties and the Law should be the same for the death penalties. And for other like marijuana and prostitution cases and add one more slavery, there should be re ordering from Law authorities I think. But may be it's already better for these low intensity cases. After all these are not death penalties and can never be.

death penalty = yes
Since the world if overpopulated we need whatever population contol we can get. Anyone that breaks the law no matter how severe it is should be punished by death.
Just kidding =O

Death Penalty: Yes
I hate it when people talk about how the Death Penalty is right or wrong based on tax payer's money. I think those people sound like savages determining a person's death on cost.

However, I believe, currently, that the death penalty is right. Canada's legal system seems to lax and I think Canada needs to change this.

Marijuana - Yes
There are a lot of people that smoke weed and from what I hear, it is not that serious of a drug (dont know any weedheads). Cops should stop wasting their time trying to catch these guys when they could use their time for other crimes such as murder, rape etc.

I used to support the death penalty, but now I believe that it is unjust. Even if the person is a complete monster, we cannot play God and take someone's life.

Besides, there are fates worse than death. Solitary confinement for life sounds worse to me.