04-15-2010, 07:09 AM
You can't view the world in black and white. Putting things in boxes (or categorising them in other words) is done by every human. But not every situation fits right into every box.
But what if it's just some other situation? We don't really know. And there is always a lot of pressure in courts and the wrong decision may take a man's life. If you made the law that you can only kill if he declared himself Guilty, everybody would turn Not-Guilty.
That's one of the main problems with the Death Penalty, in my opinion. You can't categorise every crime perfectly.
(04-08-2010, 10:42 AM)djh4u Wrote: When they are threating to do harm to you and/or others.How do you decide if they are being threatening enough or how do you even know in some cases that they'll hurt anyone?
(04-08-2010, 11:48 AM)velvetfog Wrote: When they have killed several people, and are likely to do so again.So does it need to be more than one, to get the death penalty, in your opinion?
(04-08-2010, 12:20 PM)addy Wrote: Someone who kills/tortures others maliciously, basically someone who has lost their humanity... I have no qualms about putting down a person like that. It's not just about murderers for me. (Remember that man who locked his daughter up for decades and kept her as a sex slave? Yeah, I wouldn't miss him)Exactly the same with you, addy. Where do you set the boundary? Sure, even I agree (and we're not the only ones) that Joseph Fritz deserved the death penalty .
But what if it's just some other situation? We don't really know. And there is always a lot of pressure in courts and the wrong decision may take a man's life. If you made the law that you can only kill if he declared himself Guilty, everybody would turn Not-Guilty.
That's one of the main problems with the Death Penalty, in my opinion. You can't categorise every crime perfectly.