Murderers deserve to die exactly as their victims did, amirite?

Why would you guys say no way?? Justice should be served!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But who would do it? Half the reason murder is bad is because people find it unethical, and I dont think even an executioner would want to, say, stab someone to death. And a stabbing isn't even close to the worst way you could kill someone. Essentially what you're doing is murdering someone else, even if they had committed homocide in the first place, and most people don't want to live with that on their conscience.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

got it! stabbing machine!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hell no. Dying is easy. They should be left in jail to rot for the rest of their lives.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Then we have to expend thousand of dollars for their care.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope, just put em in a cell...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We'd have to feed them or they'd starve to death, which sort of defeats the purpose.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

make 'em hunt for it in teh WILDERNESS

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The wilderness of their cell... ?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

exactly!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

o ok

by Anonymous 12 years ago

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by Anonymous 12 years ago

we had to write this paper in english last year that were our own modest proposals and I said we could solve prison overcrowding by putting them all in colosseums :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the romans did it, and they turned out fine!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

haha yeah totally, it's not like their entire empire went down in flames or anything.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

nope, not at all!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It costs more money to execute someone then to keep them in jail for life, so I say just keep them there.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's mainly due to legal fees. If this attitude was more universal, it might be possible to make it less costly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's true, but when everyone agrees on the death penalty no one will be murdered anymore, and I believe that life without parole is a worse punishment at least psychologically I mean they could live half their life with a fear of being shanked everyday I think that's a good punishment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But one of the main sources of expenses for death row inmates is the fact they have unlimited appeals, which they use to try to get life in prison instead of execution.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know I agree with you but you will never get rid of death row inmates' appeals unless you get rid of the death penalty because the death penalty will never be widely accepted by people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The death penalty actually costs more than caring for a prisoner for life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Beat me to it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So you're saying a guilty murderer deserves better treatment than their innocent victim?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

LIKE, OH MY GOD THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT! OH MY GOD, YOU KNOW ME SO WELL! OF COURSE I MEANT THAT THE MURDERER GETS BETTER TREATMENT THAN THE VICTIM! YES, BECAUSE I SYMPATHIZE WITH MURDERERS! Use your brain and actually attempt to rationally understand what I meant by that ages-old quote, fool.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So I suppose you think the correct way to teach a murderer that what they did is wrong is to give them a comfy cell with a bed and a hot meal for years and years. You know why that would never work? They'll say "You know what? If I murder someone again, all that happens is I come back here, which isn't so bad." That would never teach anybody a lesson.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You really don't know anything about prison do you? Anyone who thinks prison is you sitting in a comfortable bed with a hot meal in front of you is deluded and has no idea how it works.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It was all hypothetical. I never said that's how prisons actually work. And you know, that's all good and well, but let's face it, prisoners have more rights than victims in this country. Letting them take advantage of those rights isn't going to teach them any lessons.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So it's hypothetical because someone told you it's not true? And it absolutely depends on the nature of the crime regarding the issue of whether or not a prisoner receives more rights than a victim. If someone goes to jail for something like petty theft, the victim definitely has more rights because they have freedom, while the prisoner doesn't. But if someone is murdered, the only thing you can do is give them the same rights and kill the prisoner, so you can't really get around that one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No it was always hypothetical. That's why I said 'Do you know why that would never work?" implying that it was a hypothetical situation. People in prison get free healthcare while victims don't. They get cable TV when others have to pay hundreds of dollars for it. Prisoners certainly do have more rights that victims these days.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hypothetical means that you assume it is true for the sake of the argument. Your "hypothetical" situation was so far from reality that it made it irrelevant. Why would we assume prisons are comfy with hot meals when they are not actually so? And like someone said above, those privileges (not rights, they're *very* different) are based on what crime you commit and whether you're harmful to society. They do get health care, not all of them get cable tv.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

As said before, a hypothetical situation implies a degree of truth either for the sake of the argument, or to prove a point with a situation that could actually happen. Again it's been said before, but you're thinking of privileges as opposed to rights. I don't think you understand how the whole TV thing works either; prisoners don't have their own personal little TV's that they can watch wherever, whenever. In regard to healthcare, prisons are treated like a business in the sense that if you are injured on their property, they are liable to pay your healthcare bills. And if you had a pre-existing condition before prison, chances are you were being treated for it already.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So it's hypothetical because someone told you it's not true? And it absolutely depends on the nature of the crime regarding the issue of whether or not a prisoner receives more rights than a victim. If someone goes to jail for something like petty theft, the victim definitely has more rights because they have freedom, while the prisoner doesn't. But if someone is murdered, the only thing you can do is give them the same rights and kill the prisoner, so you can't really get around that one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If a murder slits one victim's throat and shoots another 11 times, how should he be executed?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Shoot him 11 times in non fatal areas, then slit his throat.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Make a game of it: slit his throat and see if you can shoot him the 11 times before he hits the floor.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Jesus Christ! I'm disappointed in you

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Okay, you can only play the game if you are free of sin :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

not christian, so i may be wrong, but aren't only children free of sin?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah that was the joke I guess it isn't very funny as much as it is sarcastic.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

oh, sorry...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your name is awesome it's a two worded tongue twister

by Anonymous 12 years ago

thanks! your name is cool too

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Idea: Overcrowded prisoners, Hungry bears.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What if you kill a bloke in honest self defence but it can't be proven as that for what ever reason, then you get executed for self defence. That's a shit one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think that's fair, because there's so many different types of circumstances. Like self-defence, or if the person was mentally ill in some way, or something. What if they murdered someone accidentally while trying to kill themselves? Does that make them a bad person, too? I think murderers should be put in mental hospitals and given help and/or medication, and if somehow they're mentally healthy but just an awful person, then they can be put in prison forever, and/or executed. But I'd find it hard to believe that all people who kill people just do it because they're evil, and that they fully understand that what they're doing is wrong and horrible and they only do it 'cause they're bad and they like people suffering. :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your username is just so incredibly perfect for this comment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

if someone is mentally ill, they can plead that way, or they plead temporary insanity. medication doesn't always work. the same way innocents get convicted, the guilty go free, (far too often, in my belief). life isn't fair, and people die. you can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think there simply should be harsher conditions in prison. Such as no internet or cable or luxuries. I would make them work to be productive to the community. Killing a killer is simply punishing someone for a crime by committing the same crime they did.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

machines can do the killing. no guilty executioner, no living murderer, everyones happy!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except the people that have to set up the machines... And it isn't even who physically does it. But the law is allowing people to get killed. When shooting and killing someone it isn't you physically but a gun so does that mean you're innocent? Ofcourse not...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

it was a joke... how could you not see that?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sorry, you just come off as a moron, I thought you were serious.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

nope. thats why i used "everyone's happy!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah whatever, I'm done with this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What if you killed people slowly by feeding them foods high in cholesterol?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sounds like a delicious meal plan.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sounds like real life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This sounds like Hammurabi's code, An eye for an eye. It doesn't' really solve anything it's just giving the murder and easy way out. True Justice cannot be served by humans in my opinion.

by Anonymous 12 years ago